Box 1
Container
Contains 11 Collections and/or Records:
The BBC Program 1620 code, December 1960 [?]
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Content Note
This series contains various printouts of baseball game simulations run by Burgeson. Also included here is the abstract and program description of “The Baseball Demonstrator” presented to IBM in September 1961. (Additional simulations can be found in Series V: Digital files.)
BBC - 73rd simulation, July 23, 1961
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Content Note
This series contains various printouts of baseball game simulations run by Burgeson. Also included here is the abstract and program description of “The Baseball Demonstrator” presented to IBM in September 1961. (Additional simulations can be found in Series V: Digital files.)
BBC - 53rd simulation, November 22, 1961
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Content Note
This series contains various printouts of baseball game simulations run by Burgeson. Also included here is the abstract and program description of “The Baseball Demonstrator” presented to IBM in September 1961. (Additional simulations can be found in Series V: Digital files.)
BBC - 51st simulation, n.d.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Content Note
This series contains various printouts of baseball game simulations run by Burgeson. Also included here is the abstract and program description of “The Baseball Demonstrator” presented to IBM in September 1961. (Additional simulations can be found in Series V: Digital files.)
BBC - 86th simulation, n.d.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Content Note
This series contains various printouts of baseball game simulations run by Burgeson. Also included here is the abstract and program description of “The Baseball Demonstrator” presented to IBM in September 1961. (Additional simulations can be found in Series V: Digital files.)
“BBC VIK - The Baseball Demonstrator,” Jack Burgeson, IBM Akron, and Paul R. Burgeson, Ens. - US Navy, September 1961, Code 11.0 [IBM 1620 Program Library Abstract, 1961]
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Content Note
This series contains various printouts of baseball game simulations run by Burgeson. Also included here is the abstract and program description of “The Baseball Demonstrator” presented to IBM in September 1961. (Additional simulations can be found in Series V: Digital files.)
Correspondence about BBC Program simulations, 1961-1963 [J. Burgeson, R. Cordic, A. Cella, B. Luckin, F. Marks, D. Newton]
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Content Note
Within this series are letters indicating interest in using the BBC Program on a radio show with Rege Cordic of KDKA Pittsburgh, as well as the BBC Program’s inclusion in/exclusion from the IBM 1620 software library.
News articles on John Burgeson, 1962-1963
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Content Note
This series includes newspaper articles from 1962 and 1963 touting baseball simulation on the IBM 1620. (Additional later publicity can also be found in Series V: Digital files.)
Essay on baseball computer games, John Burgeson, February 14, 1990
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Content Note
This series houses a personal narrative written by Burgeson on his affinity for the Cleveland Indians, beginning in 1946, covering his development of the BBC Program, and reviews of other baseball simulation software.
DVD of BBC Files from John Burgeson, December 2012
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Content Note
These digital files from Burgeson include scanned photographs, audio recordings, video clips, text documents, and compressed program files. The file names, upon transfer to the internal network of The Strong, remain as originally titled by Burgeson. Some files may include the approximate date within the file name (such as with some photos or audio), or within the document text. Two folders contain HTML or MHTML documents, which are saved versions of web pages and can still be accessed using web...