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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 10:43:42 -0700, "Peter Duniho"
wrote in rec.aviation.simulators: Even so, the post to which I was replying was clearly off the mark in a variety of other ways (especially the assertion that there was a TRS-80 plus flight simulator in 1970). Yes, I completely agree with that. The TRS-80 Model I came out (I believe) in 1978, and there was no way it could have been the one seen around 1970. The one featured in National Geographics in 1970 must almost certainly have been a professional type flight sim, if for no other reason than private persons did not own computers in 1970. Regards Peter |
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I seem to remember the Z80 (Zilog) microprocessor coming out around 1976? 75? This was certainly before anything we
might call a 'home computer' ever hit the market. -- ....Carl Frisk Anger is a brief madness. - Horace, 20 B.C. http://www.carlfrisk.net "Peter Bjoern" wrote in message ... On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 10:43:42 -0700, "Peter Duniho" wrote in rec.aviation.simulators: Even so, the post to which I was replying was clearly off the mark in a variety of other ways (especially the assertion that there was a TRS-80 plus flight simulator in 1970). Yes, I completely agree with that. The TRS-80 Model I came out (I believe) in 1978, and there was no way it could have been the one seen around 1970. The one featured in National Geographics in 1970 must almost certainly have been a professional type flight sim, if for no other reason than private persons did not own computers in 1970. Regards Peter |
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Actually there were quite a few interesting graphics posted in that
Nat Geo issue, not just the flight sim. This was a year before even Computer Space, 2 years before Magnavox Odyssey and Pong, 6 years before Night Driver. Even earlier, there is a "computer graphics timeline" online (search for it) that cites wireframe animation done in 1963 for a TV ad (possibly by Bell Labs?). Also, I always wondered what system they used for the "death star tapes" in Star Wars. |
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Kevin Darling wrote:
"Peter Duniho" wrote in message ... If I had to guess, I'd guess that the simulator depicted in the 1970 National Geographic issue is one of the television-based simulators. I think you're probably right. Or perhaps it could've been an Evans & Sutherland prototype. I believe they were just getting started around then. General Electric http://home.chello.no/~pal.nass/oldgeflightsim.jpg I've "thumbed" through the whole article without finding any more mention of it. Reading it is a strain on the eyes, I don't have the paper copy, it's the entire NatGeo on CDs. (it is the November 1970 issue, for those with a well-stocked library nearby. Article is "Behold the computer revolution", by Peter T. White.) |
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That's no oil-well, that's the Sears Tower. It sounds exactly like the
stone-age version of MSFS. When I was in HS in the mid-80's I took two semesters of computer-sciences, mostly learning BASIC on the school's Apple II (they had a bunch of "Franlin Ace" sets as well. In a box of 5.25" floppies were two marked "Flight Simulator", but which I could never get to work right - it would freeze on the opening screen. Otherwise, it sounds exactly like what you describe. Even a year later, when I moved up to a color version for my XT, buildings like the Sears tower and the Empire State Building looked like oil towers or something like that. |
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