More Tennis for Two

Thanks to Lenore and Windell, i am very happy to build this project with your help.
If i can help anyone, do not hesitate.
Regards from France. Romain.

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Wow! You have inspired me to be a great technician
becuase of you!

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Does anyone reading this know where I could find details of the *original* circuitry and techniques used by the actual inventor/designer of this game at the atomic research place? I'm not totally sure he didn't adapt the analogue computer they already had, but I seem to remember reading otherwise, that he built an independent circuit for the scope-tennis game.

I've been searching for details for a long while now but all I've found is people using 21st century technology and calling the result a 'reproduction' of Tennis for Two - IMHO that's like calling an electronically dimmed, artificially flickering LED (with a rigid time limit!) a 'reproduction' of Edison's lightbulb..

Does *anyone* know where I could find out how the original genius set up his original prototype? If someone helps then I'll eventually be able to put up a description of a reasonably competent genuine re-creation of the actual circuit! So.. Please? :-)

Regards,

Dave Johnson

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The first link in the article above takes you to our post about making a modern implementation of Tennis for Two. If you had read that post, you would have found that it links to the history of the exhibit at BNL here:
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/higinbotham.asp
The original schematics are available toward the end of that article. There have been faithful reproductions made following the original schematic--there is a nice video on youtube with the clickety-clacking of the mechanical relays in the background.

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