[EE]:: (not quite the) World's first video game

[RussellMc]

"Tennis for two"
Brookhaven Labs, 1958.
Created for an open day.

"Tennis" on an oscilloscope using an analog computer./

http://scienceblogs.com/brookhaven/2010/12/resurrecting_one_of_the_worlds.php

In the recreation (video) note the anachronistic LEDs.
What is the mechanical"sequencer" for - shouldn't be necessary.
Relays maybe.

It doesn't look too hard to do with a fully analog system - even
without relays.



Russell

___________

Ken said:

Subject: World's first video game


Here's something you could do with an old slow Tek scope:

http://scienceblogs.com/brookhaven/2010/12/resurrecting_one_of_the_worlds.php

Watch the first video  - and then think about what it would take to do that
using an analog computer.

Regards,

Ken Mardle

[Derward Myrick]

Russel:

I do not think You would believe some of the things that were done early on.

A lot of things were developed by people and were never picked up by the
public.

Back in early 1960 I bought a 541 Tek scope and developed a charter
generator

for TV. I could display the letters and numbers on a TV. In early 1964 I
sold it to

The company(Brown Engineering) I worked for in Huntsville Alabama. All
their work

was for NASA and the Military so they did not do any thing with it and in
1970 they

sent me a letter giving the rights back to me. The problem was they were
making so

much money on Gov. contracts they did not want to waste time and money on
something

that was not sure. I am sure that there are many things developed early on
that were state

of the art and was never known outside of the person or small group that
developed it.

Derward Myrick





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"Tennis for two"
Brookhaven Labs, 1958.
Created for an open day.

"Tennis" on an oscilloscope using an analog computer./

http://scienceblogs.com/brookhaven/2010/12/resurrecting_one_of_the_worlds.php

In the recreation (video) note the anachronistic LEDs.
What is the mechanical"sequencer" for - shouldn't be necessary.
Relays maybe.

It doesn't look too hard to do with a fully analog system - even
without relays.



Russell

___________

Ken said:

Subject: World's first video game


Here's something you could do with an old slow Tek scope:

http://scienceblogs.com/brookhaven/2010/12/resurrecting_one_of_the_worlds.php

Watch the first video - and then think about what it would take to do that
using an analog computer.

Regards,

Ken Mardle
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[RussellMc]

Post by Derward Myrick
I do not think You would believe some of the things that were done early on.

I don't know why you'd think that :-).
I didn't mean to evince any great surprise at the achievement. Just
passed it on as being an impressive but believable example.

One of my treasures is a book titled "Faster than Thought. A symposium
on digital computing machines."
8+ major any many minor digital computers and the general field are discussed.
My copy, ex California Federal Telecommunications lab, is 1955.
1st printed in 1953.
Dr A.M. Turing FRS wrote one of the papers - dealing with the
application of computers to games, with chess playing example given.
1953!

I've seen a full basketball scoring and game control system written in
256 bytes of fusible link PROM, using an SC/MP processor.

In 1977 I used a Motorola 6802 (D2 kit!) to read blocks of data from
an 8 track tape drive (ONLY JUST able at 4 MHz clock) and pass them
to an HP9831 "Mini Computer" using HPIB. (Subsequently adopted for use
by then NZPO).

Marine RADAR was first demonstrated by a German in Germany in 1903.
Fortunately, perhaps, nobody got the point.

Much more ...

I can well believe your commendable scope / TV display - sounds like
you had fun.

Those were the days ... :-)


Russell

[RussellMc]

Post by RussellMc
One of my treasures is a book titled "Faster than Thought. A symposium
on digital computing machines."
8+ major any many minor digital computers and the general field are discussed.
My copy, ex California Federal Telecommunications lab, is 1955.
1st printed in 1953.

​
* ​​Dr A.M. Turing FRS wrote one of the papers - dealing with the*

Post by RussellMc
* application of computers to games, with chess playing example given.*
1953!

​Turing would have appreciated this.


*- A step-by-step guide to building a simple chess AI*

​ ​
​https://medium.freecodecamp.org/simple-chess-ai-step-by-step-1d55a9266977​
&

Github: https://github.com/lhartikk/simple-chess-ai


- Cited by hackaday in April this year (2017)

https://hackaday.com/2017/04/03/chess-ai-old-school/#more-251016


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