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    A look at some of our history

    I saw this a bit earlier today, and it reminded me of the very first time I played Pong:


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    That was impressive back then, wasn't it?

    Soon came Asteroids!


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    When it came to games, Zork changed my world

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    Did anyone else have the magnavox television with the button that switched it over to pong? We had one back in the early '80s when I was a kid. You plugged these paddle controllers into the back of the tv, clicked a pushbutton, and BAM you were playing pong.

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    Re: A look at some of our history

    Quote Originally Posted by QIII View Post
    That was impressive back then, wasn't it?
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    Yeah, considering it was made with resistors, capacitors, inductors, transistors, and variable resistors (pots). There wasn't one vacuum tube in it.
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    Very interesting vid, thanks.

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