your post reminds me of my good old days . I was only 5 when I started with a vic-20 in 1983, 8 when I got a commodore 64, I used to spend hours punching in the BASIC from "Compute's Gazette" magazine. Then the "covox voicemaster" came out and I could write BASIC to have my computer move a sprite on screen with voice recognition. Then the Amiga exploded into my life in the early 90's let me do simple 3d graphics,fractal landscapes and animation , then I got an imac running bryce around 1999, soon switched to Alias Maya and a modern PC and started a graphics company. I have yet to make any money though.... I credit my whole life to typing in the BASIC programs in the back of magazines into my C64 after school.... sigh
for what its worth , we once came across a 50s-60s era "copy machine" from and old abandoned office, I think they are called mimeograph's or something. They are huge, two machines filled a whole pickup bed and we had thousands of gears,bearings, solenoids,bolts, and many more parts for years afterwords.
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your post reminds me of my good old days . I was only 5 when I started with a vic-20 in 1983, 8 when I got a commodore 64, I used to spend hours punching in the BASIC from "Compute's Gazette" magazine. Then the "covox voicemaster" came out and I could write BASIC to have my computer move a sprite on screen with voice recognition. Then the Amiga exploded into my life in the early 90's let me do simple 3d graphics,fractal landscapes and animation , then I got an imac running bryce around 1999, soon switched to Alias Maya and a modern PC and started a graphics company. I have yet to make any money though.... I credit my whole life to typing in the BASIC programs in the back of magazines into my C64 after school.... sigh
for what its worth , we once came across a 50s-60s era "copy machine" from and old abandoned office, I think they are called mimeograph's or something. They are huge, two machines filled a whole pickup bed and we had thousands of gears,bearings, solenoids ,bolts, and many more parts for years afterwords.