About five years ago I enjoyed playing an original _Lunar Lander_ at the
Exploratorium in San Francisco. A staff member told me it had been donated
to them by Atari, in exchange for an original _Pong_ that Nolan Bushnell had
donated to the Exploratorium some years before; but the museum staff
couldn't keep the _Pong_ running, so it was in storage. Atari heard that
the museum had a _Pong_, which Atari wanted for their archives. The
Exploratorium agreed, and received the _Lunar Lander_ in trade.
I'd be very interested to find out if that _Lunar Lander_ is still there and
still running!
Matt J. McCullar
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I'm definitely looking forward to visiting the museum next time I'm in the
bay area.
Ray
In the interest of full disclosure, I am a member of the PDP-1 restoration
team at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, and we have
Spacewar! running again, and demo it on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the
month. If you're in the Bay Area, you should come see it some time. It's
an amazing machine, even if I am biased towards it. :-)
Ken Sumrall
k_lists@scrapheap.net
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