I remember paging through an issue of MacWorld in Sept. 94 when I saw the first ad for Bryce - full page Grand Canyon scene that just blew me away. Today it wouldn't impress anybody! Anyway got right on the phone and pre-ordered it. This is the first image I that I thought was worth keeping, dated Oct. 28, 1994. Took a couple of days to render on what I think was a 60MHz machine.

Came on floppy disks and  I had to upgrade my computer to use it. The millions of colors video card cost something like 800$, which in '94 was very expensive. No animation, sky, tree or light lab, no real render options and had much simpler TE and ME dialogs. The DTE was considered so advanced that it was hidden from casual use. The DTE  also used Eric's interface for his D4 app and while it had almost all the functions we use today, it was all crammed together to fit the small screens of the day. The main Bryce interface everyone would recognize today.
One kinda a cool thing was a scene generator where you could select different terrains, materials, skies and water and it would generate a new scene for you with those elements.
No imports - everyhing was built from primitives.

Sure has been a long, strange but very enjoyable journey!