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  The First Video Game
Four of the operational amplifiers were used to generate the ball motions and the others to sense when the ball hit the ground or the net, and to switch the controls to the person in whose court the ball was located.
A two-dimensional, side view of a tennis court was displayed on an oscilloscope, which has a cathode-ray tube similar to a fl and white TV tube.
Tennis For Two was part of the division's exhibit for two years, and it turned out to be a real crowd pleaser.
www.bnl.gov /bnlweb/history/higinbotham.asp   (1058 words)

  
  Tennis for Two - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tennis for Two was a game developed in 1958 on an oscilloscope which simulated a game of tennis or ping pong.
Tennis for Two was the predecessor of PONG, one of the most widely recognized video games as well as one of the first.
Unlike PONG and similar early games, Tennis for Two shows a simplified tennis court from the side instead of a top-down perspective.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tennis_for_Two   (211 words)

  
 Tennis for Two: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tennis for Two was a game developed in 1958 on an oscilloscope oscilloscope quick summary:
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 Tennis,
Tennis, long the most popular game played at Princeton, began as an organized sport in 1882 when undergraduates formed the Princeton Lawn Tennis Association.
Two years later, Princeton joined the newly founded Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis Association and by the turn of the century had produced three intercollegiate champions: Samuel G. Thomson 1898, Raymond D. Little '01, and Frederick B. Alexander '02.
Church later gave the University ten tennis courts, while Mathey, for many years a charter trustee, and Joseph L. Werner '21, a former tennis captain, gave the pavilion in the center of the tennis courts on Brokaw Field.
etcweb1.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Companion/tennis.html   (681 words)

  
 Tennis Tickets - Tennis Tournament Tickets - Tennis Schedule
If you would like to attend a tennis match or an entire tournament to see the hard-hitting action live, or to see a player's schedule and information, Coast To Coast Tickets is your source.
Once known as lawn tennis, this sport, particularly at the professional level, has come a long way from the leisurely pastime developed in the late 1800s, in the days when players wearing flannel trousers or ankle-length dresses flipped the ball back and forth over the net.
Since 1968, tennis has been 'open' to anyone with the skill to win a berth in the competition, Ironically, the first winner of the U.S. Open was Arthur Ashe, who would have been excluded from setting foot in most tennis clubs in the earlier years of the sport.
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 Two bedroom homes to let with Tennis London - private homes to let: wimbledon championship fortnight private homes, ...
Two elegant double bedrooms each with wardrobes and 5ft wide double beds.
Two large blue sofas, glass dining table and four cream leather chairs.
Two of these fitted wardrobes conceal 1) a power shower cubicle and basin and 2) a w.c.
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Tennis for Two was developed by Willy Higinbotham as a fun demonstration to liven up a rather dull tour of the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Tennis was released rather late in the console's life, and featured a static and simplistic background and net.
The tennis court was now rendered as a full 3D object and the camera could rotate 360 degrees around it and zoom in to any distance.
arstechnica.com /articles/paedia/gaming-evolution.ars/2   (1265 words)

  
 PONG-Story - Tennis for Two computer game (1958)
He and his associates fashioned a tennis game played on the five-inch screen of an oscilloscope.
The screen display was a side view of a tennis court.
The oscilloscope is on the middle with the two controllers facing it.
www.pong-story.com /1958.htm   (1253 words)

  
 Women's tennis wins two, loses one ::
Washington, DC (U-WIRE) -- In tennis, perhaps more than in any other sport, a player is never really out of a match until he shakes hands with his opponent.
Considering her lack of recent play, Simunic played "very well," Skavronskaia said, but the team was forced to forfeit all its number six singles matches as a result.
Although she has yet to play because she is still recovering from an offseason surgery, Honig has adapted well to her somewhat-new surroundings and has done a terrific job supporting the team, Booth said.
www.cstv.com /sports/w-tennis/uwire/100305aab.html   (820 words)

  
 The Dot Eaters - Player1 Stage1 - Classic Video Game History
In the rudimentary side-view tennis game, the ball bounces off a long horizontal line at the bottom of the oscilloscope, and there is a small vertical line in the centre to represent the net.
Two spaceships called the wedge and the needle, according to their shapes, are rendered in rough outlined graphics.
By using two circuits known as Spot Generators, they create a simple electronic game of "tag" with two spots chasing each other, if one is caught by the other it is wiped out.
www.emuunlim.com /doteaters/play1sta1.htm   (2839 words)

  
 Men's Tennis Battles Two Top 15 Opponents This Week :: Game Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Pepperdine men's tennis team (7-2, 2-0), ranked 21st in the latest ITA poll, prepares for two competitive matches against No. 13 USC (5-1) and No. 3 Baylor (6-1, 1-0) this week.
Pepperdine is paced by a pair of doubles teams ranked in the Top 20 in the country; Pedro Rico and Calle Hansen hold the No. 11 spot while the undefeated tandem comprised of Scott Doerner and Alexandre Herrera rank No. 16, respectively.
On Oct. 9, the two battled at the ITA Championships in Chattanooga, Tenn., in the Round of 32 where Dorsch walked away with a 6-4, 7-5 victory over then-No. 24 Hansen.
pepperdinesports.cstv.com /sports/m-tennis/spec-rel/022604aaa.html   (1159 words)

  
 Cigar Aficionado | Archives | Tennis for Two
Anticipating similar benefits are two dozen mostly doubles-minded members of the Bellevue Club, who have accompanied their head pro, Brian Nash, to Gardiner's.
Carmel is the granddaddy of upscale tennis resorts, and among the cognoscenti, it remains the benchmark: expensive and toney yet tasteful and low-key.
Just remember that tennis is a game of levels, and a player at level C will seldom, if ever, beat one at level B. But don't think about that at this point.
www.cigaraficionado.com /Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article_Print/0,2812,446,00.html   (2815 words)

  
 Brookhaven 1958 Video Game
It was wildly successful, and Higinbotham could tell from the crowd reaction that he had designed something very special.
Ahl said he knew about computer gaming done at MIT and by a small company in Cambridge as early as 1961, but was not aware of it being done anywhere else prior to the year in which he spotted the video tennis game at Brookhaven.
Simulated on a screen was a vertical side view of a tennis court showing the edge of a floor with the edge of the net perpendicular to it.
www.osti.gov /accomplishments/videogame.html   (1158 words)

  
 MTU Women's Tennis
Tech claimed two of the three doubles points to take a 2-1 lead in the match before winning each of the first three completed singles matches to seal the win.
Palmgren, a sophomore, was also a two match winner with her 6-0, 6-0 victory at number two singles.
Two of the last three matches between the Huskies and Lakers have been decided with the final point.
www.athletics.mtu.edu /WTN/wtn.html   (4344 words)

  
 Cougar tennis gets two GLVC wins.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Cougars were able to serve up two wins against Lewis University and St. Joseph's College after a difficult showing in Pensacola, Fla. The Cougars failed to pull out a single win against four nonconference opponents.
Mims kept his composure and was able to claim the next two sets 6-3 and 6-2.
The Cougars were able to claim two out of three matches in doubles action.
www.siue.edu /ALESTLE/library/SPRING2001/mar20/tennis.html   (454 words)

  
 Tennis: Tennis-Center.de - Tennistraining - Tennisspieler - Tennis Equipment - Tennisurlaub - Tennis-Center.de
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Hier kann über alles geredet werden, was mit Tennis zu tun hat...
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 Tennis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Wente, ranked #8 in girls 16s in the USTA Texas section and #118 in the nation, is a sophomore at Whitehouse High School and a member of the Wildcat tennis team.
Nacogdoches showed why they are the favorites to repeat as district 14-4A team tennis champions as they controlled the majority of the courts, winning by a score of 13 — 6.
The Wildcats have two remaining match-ups on their fall team tennis schedule, both district opponents.
www.whitehousetexas.com /tennis.html   (1402 words)

  
 M. Tennis drops two, wins one in Tallahassee ::
22 Florida State was one of three squads the Penn men's tennis team faced this weekend when they traveled to Tallahassee, Fla., to take part in a quad tournament hosted by the Seminoles.
Fox was the lone Quakers player to play a part in two points against the Cornhuskers, also winning his singles match 6-4, 7-5.
The two home matches are the Quakers' last before heading to Seattle, Wash., to compete in the National Indoors on Feb. 17.
www.cstv.com /sports/m-tennis/uwire/020606aal.html   (579 words)

  
 Women's tennis splits two   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The wind was roaring, debris was flapping wildly on the ground, hats were flying off people's heads, even a photographer was thrown backward against a chain-link fence.
The SIU women's tennis team welcomed two teams from the Missouri Valley Conference to the SIU Arena Tennis Courts this past weekend as Wichita State University came into town Saturday and Southwest Missouri State University came in on Sunday.
While the Salukis (5-6, 2-1 MVC) were looking to raise their conference record to 3-0, they had to settle with splitting the matches as they beat Wichita State 5-2 and fell to Southwest Missouri State 4-3.
www.dailyegyptian.com /spring01/04-09-01/tennis.html   (752 words)

  
 Bulldog News-Women's Tennis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Almost two weeks ago, that nervousness turned to excitement as the first of two letters came in.
The Bulldogs can finally announce the signing of two young ladies who are expected to come in and compete right away.
She is a good tennis player who happens to also be an athlete," Colvin commented.
www.aamu.edu /pr/sports/news/051502.htm   (309 words)

  
 Dummies::Mastering the Two-Handed Tennis Backhand
You can hit a backhanded tennis shot with two hands on the grip or with one hand, depending on which way feels most comfortable to you.
The two-hander is an ideal backhand for beginners who lack forearm strength or the coordination required by the one-handed backhand.
Running to a far corner of the court and making a shot when you're pressed for time can be awkward when you have two hands on the grip.
www.dummies.com /WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-421.html   (514 words)

  
 Men's Tennis - Memphis Tigers :: The Official Athletic Site
The University of Memphis had two entries named to the 2006 Conference USA All-Conference teams it was announced by the league office Friday afternoon.
Senior James Spence was named to two teams, while sophomore Sam Withell joined Spence on the all-conference doubles team.
The University of Memphis men's tennis team saw its season come to an end with a 4-0 loss to host Tulsa in the opening round of the Conference USA championships, Friday.
gotigersgo.cstv.com /sports/m-tennis/mem-m-tennis-body.html   (310 words)

  
 Tennis drops two
Last Thursday the men’s tennis team traveled to Kenyon College to match up against the top team in the conference in Gambier, Ohio.
In the number one doubles position, Frankel and sophomore David Cotter were swept 8-0 by the second ranked doubles team in the region.
Ogren and Knee won the two doubles 8-4 and Cotter and Rosenheim swept the third doubles 8-0.
www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/2004/4/23/sports/article7.html   (371 words)

  
 EURO TENNIS 1 - TWO BEDROOM APARTMENT WITH POOL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
HUERTO PB This holiday property is a 2 bedroom self catering apartment with a sea view and pool within the prestigious Hotel Euro Tennis complex in the Montiboli area just south of Villajoyosa.
The apartment has full use of the swimming pool and sun loungers, 3 of the 16 tennis courts and the children’s playground and baby pool.
The quaint stony beach is 150 metres from the apartment through the hotel garden area and the complex offers a restaurant, bar, disco and a grill/barbeque on the beach (summer only).
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 Boys Tennis: Playing two sports is second nature for Pinelands' Eiche   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Eiche said he is so enamored of playing multiple sports, that he may try to play two sports in college.
"I've never had a year-round tennis player on my team," said Rogers, who is in her ninth year coaching at Pinelands.
Klatsky was first-team All-Shore in basketball and tennis in his senior year at Holmdel High School.
www.injersey.com /rally/story/0,2470,374067,00.html   (574 words)

  
 Two Forester tennis players earn high academic honor
HUNTINGTON, IN — Two Huntington College tennis players have recently been awarded NAIA All-America Scholar Athlete honors for the 2002 spring tennis season.
Owens’ solid tennis play placed her as a natural team leader.
Owens finished her season with a singles record of 5-9 and a doubles record of 6-7.
www.huntington.edu /NEWS/0102/tennisscholars.htm   (412 words)

  
 Amazon.com: PLAY BETTER TENNIS IN TWO HOURS: Books: Oscar Wegner,Steven Ferry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
But if playing tennis isn't so easy for you, if you never seem to play up to your potential, don't blame yourself-;blame the coach who taught you a lot of uselessly complex techniques.
He was the first tennis coach to identify and document the staggering disparities between the simple, fluid game played by the pros and the rigid, overchoreographed techniques taught to new players.
I have played tennis for 34 years and I believe that the right concept is 70%, training is 30%.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0071437177?v=glance   (1442 words)

  
 Mustique | Activities | Tennis Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The tennis courts are complimentary for villa owners and guests of the villas and the hotel.
A full range of products is offered for every tennis player’s need, from grips to balls, shoes, tennis attire and racquets.
Mustique’s Tennis Club would be happy to arrange a game of singles or doubles with other island guests.
www.mustique-island.com /activities/tennis.php   (399 words)

  
 www.UConnHuskies.com Womens Tennis
STORRS, CT (Jan. 15) - UConn women's tennis coach Glenn Marshall announced the signing of two high school players to National Letters of Intent during the early signing period.
Burek is also a nationally ranked player in the United States Tennis Association and has qualified and played on the Midwest Zonal Team every year since she was 12.
At TMLA she was a four time MVP and qualified for the New York High School Tennis Championships in 2001 and 2002.
www.uconnhuskies.com /ALLSTORIES/WTennis/2003/01/15/20030115.html   (233 words)

  
 mi-reporter.com - Tennis gets two wins in league play   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Joyce Hedlund, the Mercer Island High School girls tennis team head coach, knew that this year's 3A KingCo regular season schedule would not be a pushover.
Mercer Island found itself at a disadvantage as the team was without two varsity players that did not meet team practice specifications during break.
The move resulted in two important victories as Mercer Island beat the Totems, 5-4.
www.mi-reporter.com /sited/story/html/205503   (648 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Play Better Tennis in Two Hours: How to Master (and RE-Master) the Fundamentals and Play Like the Pros: ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
But if playing tennis isn't so easy for you, if you never seem to play up to your potential, don't blame yourself'blame the coach who taught you a lot of uselessly complex techniques.
World-renowned tennis coach and ESPN commentator Oscar Wegner shows you how to focus your efforts on one thing'hitting the ball correctly.
This surefire system, practiced and endorsed by tennis legends such as Bjorn Borg and Bud Collins, will have beginners playing competent tennis in no time, while helping advanced players to break bad habits and learn the new methods used by professional players.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0071437177   (794 words)

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