article ref to 50th birthday of video games

[Paul_Koning at Dell.com]

Neat.  That predates the PDP-1 "spacewar" game, which I had thought of as the oldest.  And it may still be the oldest video game on a digital computer.

	paul

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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Brent Hilpert
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Old news for many here perhaps, but here's a writeup about physicist William
Higinbotham's creation of "Tennis-for-two" at Brookhaven Labs in 1958:

  http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/15/tech-games.html

Mentions how the initial inspiration came from reading the manual for an analog
computer and how it could be used for ballistic trajectory calculations.