Looking for Tic Tac Toe plans from the 70's

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Looking for Tic Tac Toe plans from the 70's

Anonymous (24.14.233.x) 06 Apr 2007 23:16

I'm looking for the plans I seen many years ago to build a tic tac toe box with lights and switches. I thick it was from a science Mag or some other mag. I'm Kevin, 49 and hopping to build this with my daughter (Jr. High) for her next years Science project. Ant thoughts or links with be helpfull.
Thank you!

Re: Looking for Tic Tac Toe plans from the 70's

Anonymous (76.16.234.x) 15 Jul 2008 01:18

Thanks for your help. Those plans are great, but more complicated than I recall.

This was much simpler with 9 compartments, 2 flash light bulbs in each compartment. One red one clear. Each compartment had one or 2 switches (I don’t recall, but I think only one). There was a white plastic that covered the top that the toggle switches where mounted in each square. The lines where draw on the top that lined up with the compartments below.

One person played. As the player picked a box, they would flip the switch in that box. That would light up white, and at the same time would light up another box being red.
Rules where you could not flip a switch on a box that is lighted. I do believe sometimes you did win on a rare occasion.
Kevin

Re: Looking for Tic Tac Toe plans from the 70's

hartnell 07 Apr 2007 00:08

Wow, that certainly does sound interesting. :) You may have already known this but the original PONG game featured no central microprocessor and therefore was similar.

Here's some references I found that *Might* help :

"Design of a Tit-Tat-Toe Machine" by R. Haufe in Electrical Engineering, Volume 68, page 885, October 1949

"Relay Moe Plays Tick Tack Toe" by Edmund C. Berkeley in Radio-Electronics, December 1956

Electronic Tick-Tack-Toe in a Cigarette Box" by B. Bawer and W. J. Hawkins in Popular Science 197, pages 78-79, December 1970

Keep in mind that I have read none of these, but they sound like what you are looking for. —hartnell

Re: Looking for Tic Tac Toe plans from the 70's

hartnell 07 Apr 2007 00:13

This may be exactly what you are looking for :

http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/RadioElectronics/Dec1971/RE_Dec1971.htm

Let me know. —hartnell