luckily I had a subscription to Scientific American so when I read that article I immediately wrote it up in the language at hand - turbo pascal - which would t

luckily I had a subscription to Scientific American so when I read that article I immediately wrote it up in the language at hand - turbo pascal - which would take overnight to generate a full screen Mandelbrot image - that was about 1987 or so - excellent motivation for young brash explorers who loved the unknown - the algorithm was just easy enough to get working without too much frustration yet capable of generating infinitely beautifully complex views into reality