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In 1977, Dr Tom DeFanti, who had developed the GRASS programming language, was introduced to Jeff Frederiksen, a chip designer working at Dave Nutting Associates. Dave Nutting Associates had previously been contracted by Midway to create a standardised graphics driver chip that was intended for use in most of their future arcade games, as well as a the Bally Home Library Computer. Midway was interested in seeing the GRASS language running on their system, and contracted DeFanti to port it to the platform. A number of people at the Circle Graphics Habitat (today known as the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, or EVL) worked on the project, as well as some people from Dave Nutting Associates. The project at this point was referred to as the Z-Box. Using this technology, Midway had planned to release a computer expansion module for Bally Home Library Computer a few months after its initial release. This expansion module was set to contain a keyboard, 2 cassette ports, 16KB of RAM and RO