Tennis for Two was first introduced on October 18, 1958, at one of the Lab’s annual visitors’ days. ... Later, Higinbotham worked on the Eagle radar display system, which showed the radar returns of ground targets as seen from a high-flying B-28 airplane. The picture of the target area stood still on the display, in spite of the yaw, pitch ...
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