Author: kaqs.1662@bumpymail.com
Date: 08:14:18 08/30/05
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On August 30, 2005 at 06:44:35, Paul Clarke wrote: > >That sounds like "The story of Mel" - see http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html Yup. I can't remember where I originally read it... I think Embedded Systems Programming magazine. I've got a few other stories similar to that, though. By the way, I've been asking around in the PDP-10 newsgroup and apparently MacHack VI was well known and still in use there! All this time, the computer chess people thought it had been lost. Meanwhile, the pdp fans were still actually using it. Makes me wonder if the IBM-704 fans might still have Samuel's checkers program...[grin] I have both articles, but that's not as good as having the program. (I also found a pdp-8 program from 74. Chekmo-II. Never heard of it, but it's old enough to be interesting.) Apparently one of the guys there knows Mr. Greenblatt personally, and he's going to ask him real nice if he might just possibly still have the source.... (Also, one of the guys there once had a copy of CHOAS, but no longer does...) They also told me you can go over to twenex.org and actually play MacHack VI online. It was already set up with it. Although since it's running under TOPS-20, it's apparently not working quite right. I still haven't managed to get it to run under an emulator, but that's because I don't know PDP stuff such as ITS operating system. I guess I'm going to have to get serious about tracking down these programs. I didn't make much (any) progress the other times I've tried it, but finding MacHack VI was kind of fun.
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