Issue 122 - Tidbits of Sheridan and Johnson Counties

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May 2 - 8, 2016

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Issue 122

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TIDBITS® PLAYS SOME FAVORITE VIDEO GAMES by Kathy Wolfe Approximately 1.23 billion people around the world spend an average of an hour a day playing video games. This week, Tidbits studies up on the history of this industry. • Video games were being developed as far back as the 1950s, when New Mexico’s Los Alamos Laboratories developed the first blackjack program on an IBM 701 computer in 1954. A checkers game came along two years later on the same type of IBM computer. (This game defeated a checkers master in 1964!) • William Higinbotham was an American physicist who was a member of the team that developed the first nuclear bomb. In 1958, he created “Tennis for Two,” played on an oscilloscope. Although Higinbotham obtained twenty-plus patents during his life, he never patented his video game. • In 1962, Steve Russell, a computer scientist from MIT, led a team that developed a game on one of the first PDP-1 computers, which were the first to use a screen and a typewriter keyboard. “Spacewar!” is considered the first recognized widely available computer game. This two-player game required each player to take control of a starship while firing photon torpedoes in an attempt to destroy the other. A star in the center of the screen pulled on both ships as they maneuvered to keep from falling into the gravitational pull.

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1836 S. Sheridan Ave. 307-673-0786 DOES YOUR ROAD, LANE OR DRIVEWAY NEED IMPROVEMENT, YOUR YARD NEED LANDSCAPING ROCK, YOUR KIDS NEED A SANDBOX, OR YOU ARE A CONTRACTOR? WE CAN HELP! We have a big variety of products such as: o 1 ½” Minus Structural Fill o Boulders o 1 ½” Drain Rock o 2” x ¾” Screened Rock(Landscaping) o 2”x 6” Rip Rap o Washed Sand and Washed Rock o Base Gravel - Grading “W” o Crushed Rock in 1”, 7/8” and 5/8” sizes o Pit Run о Pea Gravel We also deliver by appointment. Products Available in Sheridan - 1618 Kroe Lane

The TA Ranch Pit of Buffalo is open Mon - Fri 7am - 4pm and by appointment. We are located 13 miles South of Buffalo on Old Highway 87. For appointment: Bart Serres (307) 620 - 9329

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