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

"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

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 {Original Message removed}

> Russel: > > 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 ... :-) Russel

On 7 January 2011 at 04:20, RussellMc <spam_OUTapptechnzTakeThisOuTgmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > â€‹ * â€‹â€‹Dr A.M. Turing FRS wrote one of the papers - dealing with the* > > * application of computers to games, with chess playing example given.* > 1953! > â€‹Turing would have appreciated this. *- A step-by-step guide to building a simple chess AI* â€‹ â€‹ â€‹medium.freecodecamp.org/simple-chess-ai-step-by-step-1d55a9266977â€‹ & 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 ______________________________________ Related. MIT OpenCourseWare <www.youtube.com/channel/UCEBb1b_L6zDS3xTUrIALZOw> http://ocw.mit.edu/6-034F10 Lecture 6 : Search: Games, Minimax, and Alpha-Beta MIT OpenCourseWare <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEBb1b_L6zDS3xTUrIALZOw>Published on Jan 10, 2014 MIT 6.034 Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2010 View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/6-034F10 Instructor: Patrick Winston -- http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist