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Blackjack game recovered from Whirlwind tapes
🕑 Added 2020-01-30 07:00:49 +0000 UTCWhat do you do with 1952 Whirlwind supercomputer? We recovered a Blackjack game from a Whirlwind tape. Al Kossow read the analog data on the tape, Len Shustek recovered the digital data, Guy Fedorkow ran it on a Whirlwind emulator, and Ken Shirriff made a Java app so you can play it yourself online. And I made a wooden hub for the Whirlwind tape reels. Hey it's the spirit that counts ;-). See the blog post by Guy here:
And try the game yourself with Ken's Wirhlwind app:
http://files.righto.com/whirlwind/
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that's fantastic !
CuriousMarc
Do you have a picture?
