On 15/5/07 20:49, "Paxton Hoag" <innfoclassics at gmail.com> wrote: I share my 40th year with the birth of Pong, I'm happy with that :) -- Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer collection?

I've had the pleasure and honor to meet with Ralph Baer several times at his home and also numerous phone calls. He is a true engineer at heart and he just loves to create new concepts and idea's. He still has an active test bench and to this day is still designing and creating products. Plus he makes himself, by hand, replica's of his original "Brown Boxes" for museums and exhibit's. Now in his 80's he's still going strong. I may be an Atari guy and you'd think I'd be a fan of Nolan Bushnell, but Nolan is just a business man, he just sees the money side of things, it was the creative people around him that made Atari, Pizzatime, Androbot's and his other companies what they were. Ralph is the exact opposite, he is the tireless creator and engineer, always coming up with something new and fun, kudo's Ralph, you deserve it! Curt Paxton Hoag wrote: