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jun 30, 1960 - 1960/1 John Burgeson creates a baseball simulator

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Computer programmer John Burgeson stays home sick from work at IBM and begins developing a computer baseball simulation. A month later (in January 1961), aided by his brother Paul, John runs this first-known baseball computer program on an IBM 1620 computer.

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jun 30, 1960
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~ 65 years ago

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