Tashar59 opened this issue on Feb 15, 2004 ยท 57 posts
ockham posted Sun, 15 February 2004 at 1:01 PM
First contact with computers in high school, 1967, Fortran on punch-cards. Didn't catch the disease then; all that work and waiting for nothing but a list of numbers wasn't any fun. Returned to the digital world in 1976; built an adaptive communications device for a CP kid. The spark caught that time, but didn't really flame up until 1983 when I encountered a sound system on a PC. Making and analyzing sounds: now that's fun. Because I was working in universities, with easy access to lots of machines, didn't get around to buying my own machine till 1987, a Radio Shack XT clone. Found Poser in 2000, when I was desperately seeking a way to "spice up" my courseware; my 2D line-drawing animations just weren't getting the point across.