Pasta

Pasta is a 1956 game by Alvin Paster, published in Computing News magazine, issue #73.

The game is a stacking Checkers, from the family of Bashni and Laska.

The original source seems to be lost, but I found an article about the game from the 1970s magazine Popular Computing #12, edited by Fred Gruenberger,

The game is also mentioned by David Parlett's The Oxford History of Board Games (pg.139) and Stephen Addison's 100 Other Games to Play in a Chessboard (pg.57).

The evolution of stack-based Checkers starts at 1875's Bashni, going next to 1911's Laska (a variant of Bashni) and usually the next mentioned game is 1960s' Stapeldammen (going then into modern times with games like Emergo). Pasta is a link we can place between Laska and Stapeldammen, despite being not that original.