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Description	A Spacewar! control box from Figure 2 in The Origin of Spacewar! by J. M. Graetz, in Creative Computing, August 1981, and in Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games, Spring 1983. Graetz credits Alan Kotok and Robert A. Saunders with building the game's first control boxes in 1962. Figure 2 appears to be Copyright © 1981 by Creative Computing and J. Martin Graetz.
Source	Classic Computer Magazine Archive
Article	Alan Kotok
Portion used	No.
Low resolution?	Yes. About 85%.
Purpose of use	To illustrate the subject's work. This control box has historic significance. Low resolution image will not reduce the value of the original and is uploaded with permission of the Classic Computer Magazine Archive for use in the Wikipedia article Alan Kotok.
Replaceable?	No free equivalent is known to exist. Kotok is deceased and cannot provide a free image. The boxes no longer exist and this is the only known image of one.
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