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Title: Article on the original BYOAC project in 1958
Post by: DrumAnBass 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

Title: Re: Article on the original BYOAC project in 1958
Post by: Ummon 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.

Title: Re: Article on the original BYOAC project in 1958
Post by: ark_ader on October 24, 2008, 12:53:23 pm

Shame he didn't patent it.

Title: Re: Article on the original BYOAC project in 1958
Post by: Ummon 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.