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Article on the original BYOAC project in 1958
« on: October 23, 2008, 05:46:43 pm »
MSNBC has a nice article on "Tennis for 2"  - the original BYOAC project, in 1958!

http://is.gd/4D1I
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Re: Article on the original BYOAC project in 1958
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2008, 09:34:17 pm »
That's pretty rad. I remember Ralph Baer mentioning it in interviews and such but I don't recall seeing an actual example of it. Looks more sophisticated than Pong. I bet the analog computer was much more suited to those trajectories.
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Re: Article on the original BYOAC project in 1958
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2008, 12:53:23 pm »
Shame he didn't patent it.
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Re: Article on the original BYOAC project in 1958
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2008, 09:23:28 pm »
Not really. Patenting does you nothing if you don't market, provided you have marketing capital, let alone have the wherewithal to police your patent. Baer ran into that and still didn't ultimately get much out of it.
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"Theoretical physics has been the most successful and cost-effective in all of science."

Stephen Hawking


People often confuse expressed observations with complaint, ridicule, or - even worse - self-pity.
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