 Pitts and Tuck renamed their product from "Spacewar" to "Galaxy Game" due to anti-war sentiment and founded a company called Mini-Computer Applications in June 1971 to operate the game as it neared completion.The development of the prototype machine took around three and a half months.By August, they were well into development and had gotten permission to place the machine at the Tresidder student union building at Stanford as a test site.