By todays standards almost everything was low end back then in regards to quality, but it was all superior to the slide rules we were using in the 60s and 70s! :)
I too recall extracting dos batch file programming code one word at a time from a mag called DOS Resource Guide and then rewriting it into something useful. And the basic programming had to be done by swapping the Basic floppy disks with OS floppy disks etc because the PC had no hard drives. Fun indeed. -- Joey Ponthieux __________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Harriss Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 9:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: positivity A bit... But there are plenty of you guys here that don't make me feel so old! ;) My first machine was a TRS-80 that I got sometime around 1977. Did some graphics, learned basic, played really bad games. 10 Print "Cheese and Monkeys! "; 20 Goto 10 Lol. So much fun. I remember getting magazines with programs in them. The tedious typing to get them in the machine. The tearing them apart to make them do things that were "more fun" ;) Ed -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2013 9:46 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: positivity Hey Ed, Do you still feel old? :-) Joey ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Graham D. Clark [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2013 12:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: positivity Thanks Adrian for keeping it positive, we use Softimage for most of the features Stereo D is on. I use Soft to prototype tools outside of soft, for other programs and onset tools. Plan to keep using it for the foreseeable future. Can't say I said that about the Commodore PET I started on in 1980. Cheers -- Graham D Clark, Head of Stereography, Deluxe 3D dba Stereo D phone: why-I-stereo http://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamclark On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Meng-Yang Lu <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 1983 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lite-Brite Did I win? :P On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I can say I miss the cheese and monkeys humor and do wonder what Porl is up to these days. But as for old.... Maybe we should have a contest. What's the oldest computer graphics system you worked on, and the year? It doesn't have to be 3D, it can be 2d, print, video, layout, etc. It just had to be a computer than did any kind of graphics. Takers? -- Joey Ponthieux __________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 2:24 PM To: softimage@listproc. autodesk. com Subject: Re: positivity Ha ha yeah Ed, you're old. But dang, so am I. Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE exclusively from Sprint ----- Reply message ----- From: "Ed Harriss" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: positivity Date: Fri, Dec 20, 2013 2:07 PM Maybe we need to go back to a multi-address list system like we had in the old days. There was the discussion list, which was all fun/monkeys/cheese/Porl and there was the Softimage list, which is pretty much what we are using now. There were even other lists like eddie, particle, etc.. (Yea, I'm old..) Anyway, we could have this list stay a Softimage list and create another one for all the gloom and doom. Perfect! Now get to work Autodesk listproc person! ;) Thanks! Happy Holidays! Ed "cheese and monkeys" Harriss From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kris Rivel Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 1:33 PM To: Softimage List Subject: Re: positivity Ha ha...Merry Christmas to all!! LOL. I'm not trying to start anything...just want to see if I'm the only one hearing this. I told the guys that told me to go tell the people that said this to go F themselves for what its worth. It does piss me off to see rumors like this but....I do sit at home mostly working all day and night. I don't get to mingle with my peers as much as I used to so I didn't know if this may be old news or something new. Sounds bunk so I'll leave it at that :-) Kris On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Eric Thivierge <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Only thing I have beef with myself is the thread hijacking that snowballs into a long slog of boohooism. I'm tired of it. In recent times I have to think twice about posting to the list because I'm afraid my thread will get pulled into the black hole of negativity and what could have been a helpful / informative thread will be turned into a bitch-fest. The emPolygonizer thread yesterday that was heading in that direction seriously almost made me unsubscribe. If you want to complain about the demise of a software, have at it. Just stop hijacking threads with it (not aimed specifically Mr. Lampi, in general).. - Eric T.
