Reading all the oldies but goodies, and also being a guy that was born the year the man put a feet on the moon, without any supercomputer, I am more convinced that I don´t need a nice viewport to get the job done... hahaha
2013/12/23 Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] <[email protected]> > 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. > > > > > > > > > > >
