I remember reading articles in Scientific American back in the 70's boasting the triumphs of displaying simple wireframes on screens of high-end mainframes - they were hoping to conquer the next frontier of displaying in actual perspective sometime in the next decade. Fascinating! I played with computers myself a bit during the early 80's, but it felt like trying to sprint in a 12x12 room while ankle deep in treacle. Finally got my first XT in '86 when my boss realized I wouldn't take my own time to learn his new inventory program unless I had a computer of my own at home to learn on. He owed me for considerable unpaid overtime anyway, and finally agreed to add an extra unit the office order. Within 3 weeks all the engineers were coming to me with their hardware and O/S problems - all they knew were lotus and WordStar. I dug in to learn the O/S (MS-DOS 3.11) and hardware side of things and then taught myself dBase programming. By the time the company was fully computerized they'd split my old job between 6 employees and left the whole IT department to me. Big part of my job was attending tech shows and keeping up with computer developments. I came across a short blurb in Byte about a new program by Fractal Designs that could pose digital mannequins on-screen and I was intrigued enough to call them to get on the waiting list. They didn't even have one, and I called them monthly for over a year before they's accept a pre-release order and after only 10 more months of missed release deadlines I finally had my steaming-fresh copy of Poser 1 in-hand. Fascinating! Played with it now and again thru Ver 2 and 3. When I got 4 I really started to dig into it's capabilities and spend serious time on it. By then I was a full-time independent production-artist, and found it was often a great help in visualizing and laying out my designs. I stumbled across this forum and the Poser Community thru a series of links starting on the old Zygote WebSite, and found it a comfortable place to hang out. Fascinating!