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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Dear colleagues,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>A friendly Dutch journalist picked up on the story of Boxing simulation with the aid of an NCR 315 computer in the late 1960s. It ended with a simulated fight on film between Mohammed Ali and Rocky Marciano. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Read all about it in the links below. Admitted, it is fun.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>It is one of those legends that keeps popping up now and then, hope it is not an "urban legend". Has anyone of you dug deeper into this story?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The question put to me is if there is anything further to say about the computer and programming involved. According to the sources below Hank (Henry II) Meyers headed a small computer service firm and did the programming with support from the NCR firm. That is all I can find, nothing on the specific type of NCR 315 (types ranging from desk size bookkeeping computer to mini-sized mainframe), no specifics of the program developed.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>If this was serious computer supported simulation in sports, it must have been a very early instance of this.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Can anybody help me to be of help to this journalist.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Gerard Alberts</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Amsterdam</FONT></DIV>
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<P>Here is the wiki site: <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Super_Fight">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Super_Fight</A></P>
<P>The most elaborate report on it</P>
<P>Boxing Simulation All-Time Heavyweight Champion</P>
<P>is in:</P></FONT>
<DIV>The People's Almanac, David Wallechinsky & Irving Wallace, 1975</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.trivia-library.com/boxing-all-time-heavyweight-championship-of-the-world/index.htm">http://www.trivia-library.com/boxing-all-time-heavyweight-championship-of-the-world/index.htm</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Here is the small chapter on the computer used</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.trivia-library.com/a/boxing-simulation-all-time-heavyweight-champion-part-2-computers-and-production.htm">http://www.trivia-library.com/a/boxing-simulation-all-time-heavyweight-champion-part-2-computers-and-production.htm</A></DIV></BODY></HTML>