WOPR sells on eBay

[Gene Buckle]

>> The "original" WOPR used a Vic-20 as the display.  This one doesn't
>> appear to have that. :)
>
> Actually, the display was a "flourescent matrix" driven by a custom
> controller in an Apple ][.  Some information about this is available on
> Todd Fischer's IMSAI website:
>
> http://www.imsai.net/movies/wargames.htm
>
> Search for "flourescent" to find the relevant bits, though the whole page
> has interesting history about the technology used in the movie from one of
> the guys who worked it.
>
I'm going to have to rent that move again.  I distinctly remember a Vic-20 
display with a moving border of asterisks counting something down and I 
could have sworn the screen was a tiny little CRT in the side of the 
WOPR...

Then again, I'm 40 so all sorts of crap is breaking. :)

g.


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