Heathkit H8 and Heath H89 computers

[crustyasp46]

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Top picture: Heathkit H8, 8bit computer

Bottom picture: Heath H89 computer
The H89 is an 8bit computer using a Zilog Z80 CPU processor and up to 64KB of RAM with a built-in 40 track single sided floppy drive.

[Guest]

Now this stuff is OLD! Just look at it

Out with the old and in with the new:

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[gamfrkI]

and lets go back to the really old

Tennis for Two was a game developed in 1958 on an analog computer, which simulates a game of tennis or ping pong on an oscilloscope. Created by American physicist William Higinbotham, it is important in the history of video games as one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_Two

[crustyasp46]

I like the oscilloscope tennis game

[Hot Trout]

Serious kudos for any of you guys that know what this is (as we are talking first ever games). I lust after one of these computers (it will never happen by the way as it is already an historical legend)

[gamfrkI]

it is PDP-1
its playing Spacewar!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!

[Guest]

Ah, it may be old but it is imperative knowledge and thus I instantly recognized pong!
What I would give to touch it

[crustyasp46]

I just had to put the pacemaker into overdrive, man do I wish I could win a lottery, the kids, grandkids and great grand kids would only have an inheritance of retro systems and games. They then would all be HAPPY GAMERS

[Hot Trout]

gamfrki you are correct. There is only one original PDP-1 still in existance. Rather bizarly some collectors in the US remade an entire PDP-1 from MDF and stuff recently.

A very important piece of both computing but also gaming history.