The Datamax UV-1 is a pioneering computer designed by a group of computer graphics artists working at the University of Illinois Chicago , known as the Circle Graphics Habitat . It was primarily the brainchild of Tom DeFanti , who was trying to build a machine capable of running his GRASS programming language at a personal computer price point, a project they referred to as the Z-Box . As time went on the project evolved into a machine intended to be used to make high-quality color graphics for output to videotape , and later as a titling system for use by cable television companies. It represents what seems to be the first dedicated graphics workstation .
61-474: DeFanti had been working at the Habitat for some time when, in 1977, he was introduced to Jeff Frederiksen, a chip designer working at Dave Nutting Associates . Nutting had been contracted by Midway, the video game division of Bally, to create a standardized graphics driver chip. They intended to use it in most of their future arcade games , as well as a console they were working on which would later turn into
122-520: A floppy disk interface. Bally's intents for the UV-1 are not entirely clear. The November 1980 Byte magazine contains an article by DeFanti (et al.) that seems to suggest that the ZGRASS-100 was already "dead", and that the UV-1 was intended to be used for high-quality video output. Ad copy from the same era suggests that Bally intended to sell the UV-1 as a home computer , competing directly with
183-497: A 9-inch refracting telescope as well as two 8-inch reflecting telescopes. The campus landscape was designed by the Olmsted Brothers firm. "Greater Denison" was designed based on a layout of quadrangles throughout upper campus, designed to mirror the building functions. This was envisioned to help foster a sense of community among campus groups. As of the 2023–24 school year, 2,300 students are enrolled at Denison, with
244-409: A foundation for expansion that has remained the guiding aesthetic for subsequent growth. Expansion during this period included the acquisition of land to the north and east, the relocation of Shepardson College to the east ridge of College Hill, and the development of a new men's quadrangle beyond the library. While the college's origins were rooted in theological education, Denison University has been
305-500: A gender distribution of 49 percent male students and 51 percent female students. They come from all 50 states, Washington, DC ; and 79 countries, with 78% from out-of-state. A full-time faculty of 292 professors makes the student-to-faculty ratio 9:1. Thirteen percent of students are first-generation college students, and 37% are multicultural students. Denison was cited by The New York Times in 2014 as one of America's "Most Economically Diverse Top Colleges." In that list, Denison
366-503: A master's program, with resident graduates pursuing advanced studies in the sciences. In 1926, the board of trustees formalized a new curriculum that made Denison University an exclusively undergraduate institution. In the wake of Shepardson College's incorporation, Denison University enlarged its campus. In 1916, the college hired the Frederick Law Olmsted & Sons architectural firm. The resulting "Olmsted Plan" laid
427-468: A microprocessor. Dave Nutting Associates kept close communication with Bally as they continued to work on microprocessor prototypes. After producing a working example of a video game, Bally proposed that Dave Nutting Associates adapt the Taito game Western Gun (1975) to a microprocessor. Dave, working with Fredriksen as hardware designer and University of Milwaukee graduate Tom McHugh as programmer, designed
488-551: A mostly autonomous operation focused around video game development for their subsidiary Midway. They also developed and released the Bally Professional Arcade console, developed by team members at Dave Nutting Associates. David mentored a number of arcade game designers at his company. These included Alan McNeil, creator of Berzerk (1980), and Jamie Fenton , creator of Gorf (1981). Another employee, Bob Ogdon, later took over development of home games for
549-604: A new company in 1971 called Milwaukee Coin Industries Inc. (MCI) with partner David Winter, dedicated to producing electro-mechanical games starting with Red Baron . The company did well in the business of arcade games and recruited engineers from the Milwaukee area to help implement David’s game ideas. In 1972, former Air Force engineer Jeffery Frederiksen began working with MCI as a contractor. Trained in solid-state electronics and computer engineering, Frederiksen
610-468: A new version of the machine. After a falling out between the brothers, David and Harold decided to form their own company, Nutting Industries, in Milwaukee to distribute their device. They launched their machine I.Q. Computer (1967) to the coin-op industry in 1967, competing with Nutting Associates ’ Computer Quiz (1966). David continued to design the games produced by Nutting Industries, initially different styles of quiz games. Nutting Industries opened
671-418: A non-sectarian institution since the 1960s. By 2005, the college reached its present size of approximately 2,250 students. The campus size is about 1,100 acres (450 ha). This includes a 400-acre (160 ha) biological reserve just east of campus, where professors of sciences, such as geology and biology , can hold class. The Denison Golf Club at Granville, an 18-hole course designed by Donald Ross ,
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#1732780944004732-491: A part of the 10-member conference Denison boasts a league-record 11 Dennis M. Collins Awards which is given to the NCAC school that performs best across the conference's 23 sponsored sports: 11 for men and 12 for women. Denison additionally has 45 club and intramural sports. Denison won nine consecutive All-Sports Awards between 1997–1998 and 2005–2006. Denison's remaining two awards were earned in 1985–86 and 2008–2009. In 2001,
793-493: A school record, 200 games and in 1985 he guided the program to their first 10–0 season with his antique single-wing offense. Denison qualified for the NCAA Division III playoffs that season before falling to Mt. Union in the opening round. Women's basketball at Denison has emerged as a national contender under head coach Sara Lee. Denison's 2010–11 squad completed the first 28–0 regular season in women's basketball in
854-444: A subsidiary called Modec to expand into the teaching machine market outside of the coin-op industry, which wound up as a financial disappointment. Nutting and Montgomery convened to create a traditional electro-mechanical shooting game called Red Baron (1971), which was the final game released by Nutting Industries. Nutting Industries entered receivership, but David purchased the company’s assets with his personal finances. He formed
915-471: A variety of annual festivals and series including The Vail Series, The Beck Series, The Tutti Festival, and The Bluegrass Festival. The Vail Series began in 1979 as the result of a financial gift from Mary and Foster McGaw in honor of Jeanne Vail, class of 1946. Michael Morris, who previously worked as the executive director of the Midland Theatre, Newark, Ohio , was appointed to be the director of
976-456: A working unit which ran using a microprocessor, the implementation of which was subsequently patented. Bally representatives were impressed with the demonstration, but did not produce a pinball game based on the technology. Instead, David offered the design to Mirco Games in Arizona, who produced the pinball table The Spirit of ’76 (1975) which was the first commercial pinball table to use
1037-661: A year studying at Denison University , Nutting learned about the discipline of industrial design . He switched colleges to the Pratt Institute in their industrial design program, then rejoined the Army Corps of Engineers. Thereafter, he joined prestigious industrial design firm Brook Stevens Associates in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He worked to design the physical shape of many different items for clients including 3M , Studebaker , cookware for Mirro , tractors for Bolens , and Evinrude Outboard Motors . He also designed one of
1098-706: Is a private liberal arts college in Granville, Ohio . One of the earliest colleges established in the former Northwest Territory , Denison University was founded in 1831. It was first called the Granville Literary and Theological Institution , later took the name Granville College , and, in the mid-1850s, was renamed Denison University, in honor of a key benefactor. The college enrolled 2,300 students in Fall 2023 and students choose from 65 academic programs. The college's intercollegiate athletic teams compete in
1159-680: Is a celebration of the entire college, put on once a year by the University Programming Council (UPC). Kirtley Mather , Class of 1909, named the tallest peak in Alaska's Aleutian Peninsula "Mt. Denison." In 1978, a group of students, professors, and alumni successfully scaled the mountain—a feat repeated nearly 20 years later by another Denison group. Denison has one of the few remaining college cemeteries. Students can major or minor in theatre, music, visual art, studio art, art history, dance, or cinema. Denison also hosts
1220-514: Is just 0.4 miles (0.64 km) from the academic campus and was donated to the university in 2014. In 2013, the university purchased and renovated the historic Granville Inn. The first building in the "Greater Denison" plan, Swasey Chapel, was built at the center of the campus. The chapel seats 990 and plays host to notable campus events such as baccalaureate services, lectures, concerts, and academic award convocations. There are 18 academic buildings on campus. Doane Administration Building, one of
1281-719: Is one of the few universities that guarantees it will meet the financial needs of all admitted students (including international students). The university is need-blind for domestic applicants. In the admission season for fall 2023 entry, there were more than 14,500 applicants, with 17% of the applicant pool receiving offers to become members of the Class of 2027. Recent trends show an expanding interest from international student populations, with application submissions increasing from 2,447 in 2019 to 3,255 in 2021. Enrollment among international students has also increased during this period, from 97 newly enrolled international students to 131 over
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#17327809440041342-400: Is printed daily and delivered to campus buildings. It was founded in 1979 to combat student apathy, and it remains central to campus culture by providing an open forum for free speech. There are 19 nationally recognized fraternal organization on campus, governed by four councils. As of 2023, 35% of students join a fraternity or sorority. D-Day, the successor to the college's old Scrap Day,
1403-460: Is ranked at No. 11 in the list of the nation's top colleges and universities. With an endowment stated at over $ 1 billion in 2023, the endowment per student is over $ 400,000. While the university will "meet 100% of all demonstrated need," the annual cost of attending is $ 83,400 for the 2024–2025 academic year. Denison awards nearly $ 70 million in financial aid each year. Denison's most popular majors, by 2021 graduates, were: Denison University
1464-412: Is student-led and operated umbrella organization for student service committees. In 2015, 86% of students participated in community service. Founded in 1857, The Denisonian is the student-run newspaper and oldest student organization on campus and prints ten issues per semester as well as online at denisonian.com. The Bullsheet is a student-run publication for news, humor and community dialog that
1525-708: Is the Denison student governing body, in which all students are members. The DCGA Student Senate is the primary representative body of students on Denison's campus, and it has been involved in various student initiatives: from postponing quiet hours in the fall of 2007 to drafting the Code of Academic Integrity adopted in the fall of 2009 to encouraging the University President to sign onto the Presidents' Climate Commitment. Denison Community Association (DCA)
1586-608: Is the New Black author, Piper Kerman , and W. S. Merwin among others. The Tutti Festival is a semi-annual festival that features original works of music, art, dance, poetry, fine arts, and theater by professors, students, and visiting artists. The college hosts an annual free Bluegrass Festival. This weekend-long celebration includes multiple concerts, instrument workshops, and jam sessions. The campus radio station, WDUB a.k.a. The Doobie, features 24-hour programming and broadcasts both online at www.doobieradio.com. The station
1647-621: The Apple II and similar machines. This makes the ZGRASS-100 somewhat unnecessary, so whether or not Bally intended to offer both remains a mystery. Either way, in 1980 Bally decided to exit the industry altogether, dropping both Z-Box projects, and the Astrocade too. The final version of the Z-Box was the only one to be produced, as the UV-1R . This version was mounted in a rack mount case (thus
1708-601: The Astrocade . Midway was not immediately interested in the home computer market, but the Nutting people managed to convince management to get DeFanti to port GRASS3 to the platform under contract. The idea was to build an external box that would be used with the existing console to turn it into a "real" computer, a system known as the ZGRASS-100 . A number of people at the Habitat, as well as some from Nutting, worked on
1769-725: The North Coast Athletic Conference , fielding 26 varsity teams in the NCAA Division III . Denison is a member of the Five Colleges of Ohio and the Great Lakes Colleges Association . On December 13, 1831, John Pratt, the college's first president and a graduate of Brown University , inaugurated classes at the Granville Literary and Theological Institution. Situated on a 200-acre (81 ha) farm south of
1830-467: The Z80 or the display hardware, but a new memory controller could switch in blocks of it so a number of screens could be cached if the disk needs were not that large. Although Midway had already given up on the Astrocade, they later sold the rights to the design to a 3rd party, Astrovision. Some time in the mid-1980s Astrovision decided to release the original "add-under" version of the hardware, now known as
1891-592: The ZGRASS-32 . It is unclear if any were sold. Dave Nutting Associates David Judd Nutting (December 26, 1930 – September 23, 2020) was an industrial design engineer who played a role in the early video game industry . He also designed the exterior of the Jeep Wagoneer . David Judd Nutting was born in 1930 to parents Harold Judd Nutting and Margaret P. Peet in River Forest, Illinois. He
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1952-444: The microprocessor , but the executive board of MCI was not interested. In 1972, they had opened their Red Baron Amusement Center arcade locations and increasingly wanted to exit game manufacturing. David was removed from the company, though he allowed them use of the building under his lease as they wound down manufacturing. He and Frederiksen jointly established a new research and development company dedicated to coin-op games located in
2013-617: The 2nd best liberal arts college in Ohio. Denison's websites states they were ranked 43rd in “Smartest Liberal Arts Colleges in America” by Business Insider . Denison is a strictly residential campus that features a mixture of historic and contemporary buildings. The Homestead at Denison University is a non-traditional housing option. Denison University is home to over 160 campus organizations with more than 600 students in leadership positions. The Denison Campus Governance Association (DCGA)
2074-581: The Bally Professional Arcade with his company Action Graphics with Nutting’s support. David continued to design arcade games including Wizard of Wor (1981) and quiz game Professor Pac-Man (1983). Eventually, Dave Nutting Associates was sidelined in favor of Midway’s internal development. David Nutting worked on several unreleased games, including a proposal for the game that eventually became Tron (1982). With home games being developed by Action Graphics and arcade games handled by
2135-715: The Denison Women's Swimming and Diving team captured the school's first NCAA Division III national championship by breaking Kenyon College ’s streak of 17-consecutive national championships. Following this, the Denison Men's Swimming and Diving team defeated Kenyon to capture the 2011 NCAA National Title by 1 point ending the Lords' 31-year streak of championships. Denison men won the national title in 2015–2016 and in 2017–2018. In both men's and women's swimming and diving, Denison has posted 47 consecutive top-10 finishes at
2196-550: The Midway team, Bally closed Dave Nutting Associates in 1984. Nutting left the industry and Jeff Frederiksen moved on to work in graphical display technology, which he had worked on as part of his work with the GRASS programming language on the Bally Professional Arcade. In the following years, Nutting moved to Colorado spent time pursuing interests in aviation. He built an experimental helicopter called Tiger Shark. David returned to
2257-471: The NCAA Division III championships. During that span, Denison has placed either second or third, nationally, 26 times. Denison alumnus Woody Hayes (Class of ’35) spent three seasons as the head football coach at Denison (1946–48). In 1947 and 1948 he guided the Big Red to undefeated seasons. In 1954, Keith Piper took over as the head football coach, a position he would remain in for 39 seasons. Piper won
2318-482: The NCAC and have advanced to the NCAA Division III Tournament for the seventh time in school history and their sixth time out of the last seven seasons. The Denison men's and women's lacrosse programs have had their share of conference and national success. The two programs have combined for 28 NCAA Division III tournament berths. In 1999 and 2001 the Denison men's lacrosse team advances to
2379-533: The Performing Arts, named for former CEO of The Walt Disney Company , Michael Eisner , who graduated from Denison in 1964. The building houses the departments of music, dance, and theatre, as well as multi-disciplinary performance and rehearsal spaces. Denison is a member of the NCAA Division III and the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) since the conference's formation in 1984. As
2440-455: The R) with considerably more RAM and a 32 KB ROM which contained the parts of CP/M that were needed to boot the machine, so a disk was no longer required. Much of the additional RAM, up to 256 KB of it, was dedicated as a RAM disk so the machines could be installed and left running for years – a floppy disk would burn out very quickly in this role. The additional RAM was not normally visible to
2501-448: The application process. In January 2021, Denison University announced it has been selected as a QuestBridge partner college, becoming one of 48 universities in the country to be part of the program. Denison was ranked 36th in U.S. liberal arts colleges and 9th for “Most Innovative Schools” by the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking . The college also received an “A” overall grade from Niche , who also placed them as
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2562-454: The back of the building, Dave Nutting Associates. Their first contact in the industry was with Bally Mfg, who were interested in the proposed application of the microprocessor to their pinball business. Nutting and Frederiksen acquired a development kit for the Intel 4040 microprocessor and obtained a table of Bally’s Flicker (1974) to experiment with. On September 26, 1974, they demonstrated
2623-529: The coin-op industry in 1993, designing a video-based baseball pitching game. He later wrote two books, the quantum mechanics primer Language of Nature: Quantum World Revealed (2005) and the creative motivational book Secrets of a Creative Mind (2012). David married Phyllis Mason on August 8, 1953. They had a daughter named Elizabeth. He died at his home in Green Valley, Arizona, on September 23, 2020. Denison University Denison University
2684-706: The establishment of the Granville Female Seminary, founded a year before Oberlin College launched the first coeducational college in the United States. The seminary was superseded by the Young Ladies' Institute, founded in 1859. The Young Ladies' Institute was renamed Shepardson College for Women in 1886. Shepardson College was fully incorporated into Denison University after a transitional phase in 1927. In 1887, Denison inaugurated
2745-467: The first computer-controlled interfaces for milling machines . In 1961, Brooks Stevens Associates received a contract from Willys to design an update on the concept of the station wagon. Though the initial design parameters called for Detroit automotive style exteriors, Nutting worked on his own time to create a design based on the legacy of the Jeep automobile. His design was subsequently chosen for what
2806-682: The oldest buildings on campus, and Burton Morgan are also on academic quad (spill-over academic building), but they serve administrative purposes. The Bryant Arts Center opened in August 2009. Also on the fine arts quad is Doane Dance Building, Burton Music, Cinema MIX Lab, Burke Performance and Recital Hall, and the Michael D. Eisner Center for the Performing Arts, completed in 2019. Doane Library today houses more than 500,000 books and bound periodicals. Swasey Observatory, which opened in June 1910, houses
2867-545: The program in 2014. According to an article by the Newark Advocate, The Vail Series is an "acclaimed visiting artist program" where artists are encouraged to both perform and interact with students. Tickets to the Vail Series are free to students. Former performers include Yo-Yo Ma , Itzhak Perlman , Renée Fleming , Wynton Marsalis , Jessye Norman , and Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer among others. In 2014,
2928-455: The project, adding a keyboard, memory, and additional connectors. A separate display chip created text, which was then mixed with the output from the display chip for the screen. Also included would be a new version of GRASS3, known as Zgrass . At about the same time, another version of the same basic parts was built as the UV-1 . In this case the machine was built as an all-in-one box, including
2989-594: The semifinal (Final 4) of the NCAA Division III Tournament [10] and most recently, in 2009, the Big Red advanced to the national quarterfinals of the NCAC Tournament before falling to Gettysburg. In 2008, the Denison women's tennis team advanced to the NCAA semifinals, eventually winning the consolation match to place third overall, marking the program's best national finish. That same year the doubles team of sophomore Marta Drane and freshman Kristen Cobb advanced to
3050-404: The small amount of additional hardware needed to support the high-resolution mode of the Nutting chipset, which supplied 320 x 204 resolution with up to 8 colors per line. This mode required 16 KB for the display buffer alone, so the machine included 32 KB RAM and a larger 16 KB ROM with additional Zgrass commands in it. To this basic system the Habitat added high quality video output circuitry and
3111-550: The three-year span. Among freshman students who committed to enrolling in Fall 2021, composite SAT scores for the middle 50% ranged from 1330 to 1550, while composite ACT scores for the middle 50% ranged from 30 to 35. Denison practices test-optional admissions. Consequently, the SAT and ACT information reported is not based on the entire student body and instead reflects the middle 50% of only those students who opted to provide their test scores. In Fall 2021, 76% of enrolled freshmen were in
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#17327809440043172-446: The top 10% of their high school classes. U.S. News & World Report categorizes Denison as "most selective". Roughly 15 percent of the incoming class are admitted through athlete recruits. Denison University implements the holistic review admissions process. In addition to the standard results, extracurricular activities, awards, honors, character, community contributions, enthusiasm, specialties, etc. are criteria that are factored into
3233-608: The university announced that ETHEL will become their first ensemble-in-residence. They performed their multimedia concert "Documerica" on campus during the spring of 2016 and received honorary degrees from the college at the commencement ceremony in 2017. The Beck Series is associated with the creative writing program at Denison, and it brings a variety of authors to campus to read their work and interact with students. Former visitors include Pulitzer Prize winner Eudora Welty , National Book Award winner Alice Walker , Playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard , Orange
3294-479: The video game Gun Fight (1975) which became a huge hit and the first commercially successful video game using a microprocessor. Dave Nutting subsequently designed Sea Wolf (1976) which was the highest grossing arcade video game of 1976 and 1977. Sequels to Western Gun and Sea Wolf – Boot Hill (1977) and Sea Wolf II (1977), respectively – were also successful. Bally purchased Dave Nutting Associates in 1977, moving it to Illinois and allowing Nutting to run
3355-585: The village of Granville. In the years leading up to the Civil War, many students and faculty members at Denison University became deeply involved in the anti-slavery movement. Asa Drury , the chair of Greek and Latin studies, became the leader of a local anti-slavery society. Bancroft House, now a residential hall, served as a stop on the Underground Railroad for refugee slaves. The roots of coeducation at Denison University began in 1832 with
3416-568: The village of Granville; it was the second Baptist college west of the Allegheny mountains after Georgetown College , which was founded in 1829. While rooted in theological education, the institution offered students the same literary and scientific instruction common to other colleges of the day. The first term included 37 students, 27 of whom hailed from Granville; nearly half of these students were under fifteen years of age. The school's first Commencement, which graduated three classics majors,
3477-486: Was called the Jeep Wagoneer , thereafter inaugurating the category of sport utility vehicles (SUVs). David became involved with the coin-operated games industry after his brother, Bill Nutting, started as an agent for the Knowledge Computer (1963) electro-mechanical quiz game . The device needed redesigning, so David and his friend Harold Montgomery who worked at engineering firm Cutler-Hammer created
3538-433: Was held in 1840. In 1845, the institution, which at this point was male-only, officially changed its name to Granville College. In 1853, William S. Denison , a Muskingum County farmer, pledged $ 10,000 toward the college's endowment. Honoring an earlier commitment, the trustees accordingly changed the name of the institution to Denison University. They also voted to move the college to land then available for purchase in
3599-722: Was notably featured in American Eagle stores across the country through the summer of 2009. The Doobie was also ranked by The Princeton Review as one of the best college radio stations in the nation. In 2016, Denison renovated and opened the Denison Art Space in Newark as part of the Thirty-One West development in Downtown Newark. Construction began in 2017 on the Michael D. Eisner Center for
3660-457: Was recognized by David Nutting for his technical skill. Nutting increasingly wanted to explore the benefits of solid-state electronics and the two of them collaborated on a game called The Safe (1974) which utilized integrated circuits for the game logic. Shortly thereafter, David heard about the potential of the Intel microprocessor. Both he and Frederiksen wanted to pursue creating games using
3721-459: Was the youngest of four brothers, including the second oldest brother William Gilbert "Bill" Nutting. David came to be interested in engineering, disassembling and reassembling household items to understand how they worked. Despite pressure from his father to become a department store salesman, David joined the Army Corps of Engineers and intended to follow a career path in engineering. After
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