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The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

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government committed US $9 million to help build a NASA-themed science exhibit at the Seattle World’s Fair. Discovery Center , in Indianapolis. References Historians appreciate footnotes and citations in order to track down the original primary source of information. The fair’s iconic landmark was the Space Needle.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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(For a deeper dive into Pong ’s design, see Hugo Holden’s article, “ Atari Pong E Circuit Analysis & Lawn Tennis: Building a Digital Video Game with 74 Series TTL IC’s ,” Dan Boris’s redraw of the circuit diagram , and Ricardo Ramos’s account of building a Pong clone.). To celebrate the half-century persistence of.