BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Allan Alcorn
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The Chinese Emperor, Ping Pong
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Ellen Pong
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Allan Ping
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Detailed explanation-1: -Allan Alcorn (born January 1, 1948) is an American pioneering engineer and computer scientist best known for creating Pong, one of the first video games.
Detailed explanation-2: -Tech legend Allan Alcorn not only created one of the world’s first video games-paving the way for Minecraft and Fortnite-but the Atari engineer behind Pong also hired a teenaged Steve Jobs for his first formal job.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1974 Alcorn created the first video game on a custom chip (home PONG) followed by the Atari VCS home video game platform that launched the cartridge video game industry.
Detailed explanation-4: -Back in the early 1970s, he got together with Nolan Bushnell to create coin-operated video games, such as an arcade version of the early game Spacewar! Bushnell asked Alcorn to make a simple ping pong game, a version of the Magnavox Odyssey’s tennis game, under a contract from General Electric.