I was at the Exploratorium about 2 years ago, and it was still there. It's
been there for at least 15 years. I always have to resist the urge to kick
off all the kids and hog the machine for myself. :-)
I heard that Al Alcorn has the Pong prototype still. I have friends
that know him. I should try and get myself invited to see it sometime.
I wonder if it still works...
Hey, Lunar Lander is a vector game, which makes this post on-topic. :-)
Ken Sumrall
k_lists@scrapheap.net
Matt J. McCullar wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
> ********************
>
> 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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