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Pong® and Pac Man®
I spent a lot of my first few years in the haze of the seventies. I had no idea where I fit in and was of the belief that I would go nowhere. Then my father was handed a death sentence. The doctors gave him three months to live. Not knowing that those three months would stretch into thirteen years, I quit school and returned home.
After a while, dad stabilized, so I went through a series of demeaning clerical jobs. Finally, I got a job at a place that sold portable terminals. They were so light. They weighed “only†thirty pounds!
After a while, I applied for a sales position. Sexism back then was at its peak. I was told by “the head office†that they only had one female salesperson and she got her sales by having sex with her clients.
Needless to say, I quit and went to work for a strange new place that was a store that sold a new machine called a microcomputer. At first, customers truckled in, giving us time to get familiar with both hardware and software. It was then learned about a few guys that invented a microcomputer called the Apple. Another company, formed by two  guys in a garage, started making software like Typing Tutor and Word. We no6hcw know them well, Microsoft
After some time, a manager position opened and I applied. The excuse I got that time was that I didn’t have a degree. I took it silently, thinking’’           oh yeah? Watch meâ€
During that time, a few things caught my attention and influenced my pursuit motion, Pong® and Pac man®. I played them often and examined their execution.
I went to UIC and took the necessary core classes. Then, my life changed.
I took a computer graphics course. The first day, I walked into a dark room lit only by flickering monitor screens. I had finally found home.
Under the guidance of Professor Dan Sandin, we held the first cable broadcast in Evanston, Illinois.. I believe it was in 81 or ’82.
First, we set up. We untangled the “rats nest†of cables and plugged in. Once connected, we started our show.
We played the best of the lab’s videos and animations and took turns being VJ’s. This is where I learned the inevitable truth. Being on-air talent was not my
destiny. I didn’t care. I was having fun and learning so much. Besides, we probably had a viewing public of , oh, maybe 12 people. We joked about it, never realizing that one day cable would broadcast to millions of people.
Now I see the struggle for enough quality programming to fill all the 500 plus channels. Just as well. These days, Nystagmus, or as I call them, “eye bobbles“, watching the same movies repeatedly helps fill in the visual gaps.
After getting my BFA, I went to work for a company called Telaction on Friday, July 28, 1986, attempting a feeble attempt at interactive TV. You turned on the cable channel and called the shopping phone number. To change pages or make a purchase, you pressed the appropriate phone key.
It was a clumsy attempt which I knew would fail, so I used its short life span to help develop a digital paint program (this was pre-Photoshop) During my off-hours, I digitally altered photographs and created “Dark Haired Woman†and “Shopping Mallâ€.
Once again, I learned a lot. Not wanting to be associated with a failure, I left the company. Not long afterward, it folded.
I then returned to the university for my MFA in electronic visualization.
© copyright 2006 Margaret M. Rawlings
About the Author
Retired Associate Director
Electronic Visualization Laboratory
University of Illinois at Chicago
BA,MFA Electronic Visualization
Handicapped with MS, affecting vision, coordination, walking. Attempting writing to help pay bills.
Is America keeping up with China, Japan, other Pac Rim areas in 21st development, infrastructure, technology?
When you read or travel over to China and other countries in that region, you see a massive amount of 21st century new development, leveraging the latest technologies in their buildings, airports, cities, streets, infrastructure, etc...
You come back home, and almost immediately beginning in our Airports, it has a 20th century (some not so late 20th) feel to our progress. You travel our cities and get the same feeling.
Are we falling behind but don't realize it until it's too late?
Our politicians are not looking out for us in many of these areas.
Washington GRIDLOCK is killing this country.
Its the EU Fault Eu companies are sharing Technologies with China and Asian countries to improve relation ships and become less dependable of the USA.
Since nobody wants to do Business with the USA and our Business partners (Eu,China,Brazil a few more) are forming trade agreements between then and letting the USA out it is normal that the Usa is not had advanced has it should be.
Also do notice the EU sends millions to those countries to help build roads factories etc.
Stanford men lose to Arizona at the buzzer
The Cardinal runs a great play for a potential winner. But the Wildcats blocked a dunk attempt and won with a 16-foot, banked jumper at the other end.
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