[game_preservation] Spacewar's 50th; Odyssey's 40th

[Andrew Armstrong]

We've got our Vintage Computer Festival hopefully going on in the UK; 
I'll raise these as possible exhibits (dates keep passing me by, it's 
almost as if there is something to celebrate every year, haha!), albeit 
we'd  have to emulate them probably.

Also next year is the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth, which 
will be likely what is going to be concentrated on among other things.

Will also be interesting to see if the UK's National Media Museum and 
GameCity will do anything special, with or without my own help, will 
have to check with them! :)

Andrew

On 27/06/2011 01:13, Devin Monnens wrote:

> Next year will see the 50th anniversary of Spacewar and the 40th 

> anniversary of the games industry through the Odyssey and Pong (this 

> November is the 40th anniversary of the first two coin-ops, Computer 

> Space and Galaxy Game). As this is a momentous occasion, does anyone 

> know if there are any special events planned to celebrate? There will 

> be a pop culture conference in Albuquerque next February or March, and 

> the Albuquerque Science Museum has a working Spacewar (though I'm not 

> sure if it's on an actual PDP-1). As I keep pushing for game 

> preservation panels at this conference, I hope folks from here will 

> consider attending or thinking about papers for the panel (I'll post 

> again once I know the dates).

>

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> Devin Monnens

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