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The game quickly spread and by the beginning of 1963, any company or school who had the money to buy the PDP-1 (only 55 were ever manufactured, in the [[The Sixties|1960s]] that was an almost ridiculously large run) had a copy of ''Spacewar!'' on it. In fact, by the end of the run of the computer, its manufacturer DEC had a copy pre-loaded on every new PDP-1. It was a good diagnostic of the computer and its display during factory testing, and even back then they saw the value of an entertainment program.
Ten years later, an electrical engineer/computer science student/entrepreneur by the name of Nolan Bushnell adapted a clone of the game that he developed into the world's first coin-operated arcade video game, which he called ''[[
You can play the original ''Spacewar!'' on the web: http://spacewar.oversigma.com or you go to [http://www.computerhistory.org/hours/ the San Francisco Computer History Museum] and see a demonstration of the only PDP-1 still working (coincidentally that PDP-1 was the 55th and final one manufactured). If you're lucky, you might be able to play ''Spacewar!'' on that PDP-1 itself.
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