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Photos: Albuquerque's PC roots

July 31, 2007 3:58 AM PDT

In 1961, MIT students Peter Samson, Steve Russell, J.M. Graetz and Wayne Wiitanen designed Spacewar!, believed to be the first video game, on a DEC PDP-1. The game is played on the display of the PDP-1, as seen at the "Startup" exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History.

Photo by Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com

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