Re: WOPR sells on eBay

> > Plays great games though. Chess, tic-tac-toe,
global thermonuclear war ...

> The "original" WOPR used a Vic-20 as the
display.  This one doesn't appear 
> to have that. 

You know, I always suspected that due to the font on the
display but I never
found anything that confirmed it. Did you find a source for
that? Someone
else claimed it was an Apple II but had an equal paucity of
evidence.

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>> The "original" WOPR used a Vic-20 as the
display.  This one doesn't appear
>> to have that. 
>
> You know, I always suspected that due to the font on
the display but I never
> found anything that confirmed it. Did you find a source
for that? Someone
> else claimed it was an Apple II but had an equal
paucity of evidence.

It's using a cyan foreground color on a white background and
the screen 
width appears to be 22 columns.  What else could it be? 

g.

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On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Cameron Kaiser
<spectrefloodgap.com>
wrote:

> > The "original" WOPR used a Vic-20 as the
display.  This one doesn't
> appear
> > to have that. 
>
> You know, I always suspected that due to the font on
the display but I
> never
> found anything that confirmed it. Did you find a source
for that? Someone
> else claimed it was an Apple II but had an equal
paucity of evidence.


The Apple II was used to drive the fake IMSAI display.

On Fri, 30 May 2008, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

>> The "original" WOPR used a Vic-20 as the
display.  This one doesn't appear
>> to have that. 
>
> You know, I always suspected that due to the font on
the display but I never
> found anything that confirmed it. Did you find a source
for that? Someone
> else claimed it was an Apple II but had an equal
paucity of evidence.

    According to this page:

http://www.i
msai.net/movies/wargames.htm

    ...the display was driven by an Apple II with a modified
display driver 
card.


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