![]() I was trying out poems this week you’re trying out segues. You tread on someone else’s turf, you often come up short… Sorry, that wasn’t a very good segue, Doug. Unfortunately, this was a free backdoor into Zoom for Mac. Zoom for Mac patches sneaky “spy-on-me” bug – update now!ĭUCK. I thought that was the title, and that you were going to do the poem now.ĭUCK. So that’ll be two lines then, will it? ĭOUG. …I’ve written a very short poem to introduce this first story, if you’ll indulge me.ĭUCK. Paul, I know you to be very adept at writing a great poem… So it was right at the mix of all technologies: relays, valves and transistors, all in one groundbreaking video game.Ĭheck it out on Wikipedia: Tennis for Two. Harking back to a previous This Week in Tech History, it was at the cusp of the transistor revolution.Īpparently, the computational half was a mixture of thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) and relays.Īnd the display circuitry was all transistor-based, Doug No pixellation, no differences depending on whether a line is at 90 degrees, or 30 degrees, or 45 degrees.Īnd the sound feedback from the relays in the controllers… it’s great! …because it’s an oscilloscope: vector graphics! …I think you’ll agree with me, Paul, it was pretty incredible.Īnd, like Asteroids and Battle Zone, and those specially remembered games of the 1980s… There’s a video there for something that was built in 1958… If you’re listening to this, you must go to Wikipedia and look up “Tennis for Two”. Shown off at a three-day exhibition at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Tennis for Two proved to be extremely popular, especially with high school students. This week, on 18 October 1958, an oscilloscope and a computer built to simulate wind resistance were paired with custom aluminum controllers, and the game Tennis for Two was born. Doug…I know, because you told me in advance, what is coming in This Week in Tech History, and it’s GREAT! Breathtaking breaches, decryptable encryption, and patches galore.Īll that more on the Naked Security podcast.ĭUCK. ![]()
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