Name: "War Games" IMSAI 8080 - Computerphile
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war games is mentioned certainly in the Ready Player.

One book, but I don't know if it's in the film.

Why does it look remarkably like the front of an older?

Uh, because it was based on an out, maybe themes.

T A C was a machine that come out not long after the outer.

So s 100 means that it had a connector at a back plane, But there was 100 connections which carried the data bus address.

Busted all the control lines for the process.

You'd have a CPU board, maybe a Rambo or maybe a cereal bored.

You could expand it so effectively, it was it was pretty much the same as the out air.

But it kind of looked nice with its nice big switches.

Any ideas that would light up on the front, so kind of a sexy looking out, they remind me of almost the front of a VCR.

Yeah, I can see some of them say address.

You literally toggle in binary data on the any days, would light up on the panel there with your bone around, put from it.

So if you want to write data to address zero FF, then you would convert that into binary.

You would total that finery in on you in the same way you would tumble in the data that goes there, and that's it.

But actually I mean, everybody talks about that in the way the out areas down.

And that is a very, very slow and tedious process quite often what you would be doing.

That memory that would then initialize destroy evil tape or whatever.

So what they call boot loader code just to jump the machine into life and get talking to Sprinkles.

And that way you can basically like a poke command in basic.

You can put data into a certain memory location.

But ultimately these things, you could have a serial port.

If you had a serial port, you could hook up a terminal.

You might have a rum in there, which might be basically a low basic in for anything else.

Whatever interfaces you had connected to it, you could get your data in and out.

Total Indian code day after day in binary.

But, you know, these things were a bit more usable than that.

Remember when we looked in the old days, there were all sorts of upgrades and changes.

And would that be quite common on one of these as well that people just have their own different boards?

I mean, these machines were in for enthusiasts.

You know, the people that were buying these quite often work electrics.

He kind of people s Oh, Yeah, you were by one.

And you would just keep making it better.

And the same as everybody does with their PC.

So yeah, the outside of the original round.

So that we have isn't really much of an outside left, you know, it was upgraded so much this on this bit different.

So it's gotta think of toys back plane there so you can plug in more boards and, you know, same thing would have been going on.

It looks to me like, kind of quite a professional machine.

So it's probably bending reality to have had the hacker kid with it sitting on his bookcase.

You know, they were reasonably good money.

So whether Matthew Lightman his name, I think it's Broderick.

Um, it was, uh um yeah would have afforded to have one of those machines in his bedroom.

I don't know, because it's the machine into just about picture that machine you got the terminal that went next to it.

You have these little speaker box so I could speak.

Andi is VHS player on the on the shelf there.

That's a fair old amount of money is worth of gear.

I don't know, but they go on the I mean, were they bending it?

What sort of hardware would you have needed to have made a computer of that era talk?

I mean, they're waas basic space, and this is out there.

Maybe it spoke a bit better than the actual real speech synthesizers did at the time.

I mean, I can't remember when the SP 0256 K out, which is a chip which is a space in the chip you're linking those up too early is exciting ones and things.

But I mean, speech synthesis has been around sometimes, so it was kind of feasible.

We have a look around, but this particular one's being with.

Yes, this one is a bit of an empty shell a minute.

So we have one of our volunteers is currently taking the boards out on Dhe is getting work him.

So we've got there's a process of cardio Ram card.

So he contested in other machines wth e out here.

So we now will very shortly have an out air where you can, where you could trouble in the date review one.

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