Did Babbage eventually become a professor at Harvard University ?
a) No, he became a professor at Cambridge University.
b) Practically, he didn't become a professor at all.
c) Well, he eventually become a professor at Stanford.
Text B. NOLAN BUSHNELL (BORN IN 1943)
The father of home video games. He built Pong in 1972, starting the videogame craze that led to today’s powerful super systems.
During the 1950’s and 1960’s, computers improved enormously. Still, only big businesses, universities and the military had them. Then in 1972 the videogame erase began.
Computers were scaled down to small boxes, using electronic circuitry instead of the Mark I's switches. They could do more than analyze data. They could play games.
The first big hit was a simple game called Pong. Two players sat in front of a television screen where a “ball”- a point of light – bounced back and forth. Using knobs on a cabinet, the players could hit the ball with inch-long “paddles” on the screen.
Pong was created by Nolan Bushnell, who grew up near Salt Lake City, Utah. He loved to tinker with machines and became an electrical engineer. He played primitive computer
games that were even older than Pong.
"I built it with my own two hands and a soldering-iron”, Bushnell said of his creation of the first Pong games.
In 1972 Bushnell founded Atari Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif., to build Pong games. By 1975 there were
150,000 Pong games in American homes.