DECUSCOPE

The inaugural issue of DECUSCOPE, the monthly newsletter for the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (DECUS), announces the society's first anniversary. DECUS, now one year old, aims to advance PDP-1 utilization by promoting free information interchange, establishing program exchange standards, and providing industry feedback.

Key initiatives include the establishment of a DECUS Program Library to maintain utility programs and subroutines, and the distribution of a basic programming library notebook to members. A featured article describes "SPACEWAR," a two-player spaceship combat game developed at MIT that showcases the PDP-1's real-time capabilities.

An upcoming technical meeting is scheduled for May 17, 1962, at ITEK, featuring a symposium on "Image Processing and Display" and other presentations. The newsletter also details a two-week PDP-1 maintenance course offered by DEC and outlines an Input-Output Subroutine Program for DECAL. Members are encouraged to contribute ideas and program summaries for future issues.