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Old October 31st 04, 09:36 AM
Peter Bjoern
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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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Old November 1st 04, 11:04 AM
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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.

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"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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Old November 1st 04, 04:36 PM
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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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Old November 28th 04, 04:53 PM
Pål Næss
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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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Old December 2nd 04, 03:14 PM
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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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