Abstract

The John Burgeson papers are a compilation of computer printouts of game simulations, notes, correspondence, and an essay related to Burgeson’s baseball-simulation game, “BBC Program.” The bulk of the materials are from between late 1960 and 1963. Digital files are also part of this collection.

Scope and Content Note From the Series: 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...

Scope and Content Note From the Series:

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.)

Scope and Content Note From the Series:

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.)

Scope and Content Note From the Series:

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.)

Scope and Content Note From the Series:

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.)

Scope and Content Note From the Series:

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.)

Scope and Content Note From the Series:

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.)

Scope and Content Note From the Series:

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.

Scope and Content Note From the Series:

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.)