>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Loewen <mloewen_at_cpumagic.scol.pa.us> writes:
Mike> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>> Pong Story has a new bit of information I've never seen before.
>> Apparently, in 1952 a PhD candidate wrote his thesis on
>> human-computer interaction and used the EDSAC's memory tubes to
>> display a tic-tac-toe game:
Mike> I don't see any mention on the Pong site about the video (oops,
Mike> COMPUTER, he,he) games on the old SAGE (AN/FSQ-7) system. We
Mike> had a baseball game, which would display a baseball diamond on
Mike> the large display scopes:
Mike>
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/images5/PDRM0380.jpg
Mike> The pitcher would "pitch" by pressing a button on the scope
Mike> console, which would start a spot of light (the ball) moving
Mike> towards the batter. At the right time, the batter would press
Mike> another button at the end of a cord to swing the bat. If the
Mike> batter connected, the ball would fly out and the men would run
Mike> around the bases.
Mike> I don't know when the baseball program was written, but the
Mike> SAGE systems started going into place in 1958.
Interesting. So that could make it older than PDP-1 Spacewar,
perhaps.
There's an implementation of a baseball game that sounds exactly like
what you describe, on the CDC 6600. That one is dated 1967 (at least
the version I have).
paul
Received on Thu Feb 17 2005 - 13:56:38 GMT
