TITLE
Putting Bytes into the Old Ball Game
AUTHOR
Mark Kendall
PUBLICATION
Pomona College Magazine
YEAR
2013
ARTICLE TYPE
Article
FROM THE ARTICLE
In his baseball-loving boyhood, Don Daglow ’74 used to get calluses on his fingers from flicking the spinner for the All-Star Baseball board game that he’d play again and again, sometimes eight times a day. Over time, he even reworked the venerable game to allow changes in pitching.And then, still in love with the old ball game, he arrived at college, where he met his first mainframe computer, the PDP-10, tied in to terminals in Mudd-Blaisdell residence hall. “That one moment,’’ says Daglow, “changed my life pretty dramatically.” He learned programming and in no time he thought, “‘Oh, wait a sec, now I can do baseball.’”
GAMES MENTIONED
Baseball (1971)
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Don Daglow
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Summer 2013