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Woz did a stint as an educator after working at Apple, and one of the stories he recounted was how a student told him he was able to create an animation on a co

by geenew 5y ago

Woz did a stint as an educator after working at Apple, and one of the stories he recounted was how a student told him he was able to create an animation on a computer. Woz's first thought was that it was not possible, because there was no video software on the machine. But the student had rigged it so that a sequence of still frames, each in separate windows, arranged in a chronological sequence, would all close when a program would close, and the effect would be an animation as each of the windows was closed in turn. That, Woz said, was hacking. I don't recall where I heard that story, and my recollection may be off, but that story always stuck with me.

lisper 5y ago
Sounds a tad improbable to me. There were animations on the Apple II. There was even a flight simulator. There is just no way that Woz would think animation was impossible on anything available after he left Apple.
- matvore 5y ago
  He's saying on that particular machine there was no video software installed.
- saghm 5y ago
  The story was told after he left, but it sounded like the conversation that he was recounting had taken place while he was still at Apple
hvgk 5y ago
This reminds me of all the unholy things I’ve seen done with excel over the years. One guy I worked with at a big corp IT shop had broken PowerPoint and the IT guys couldn’t fix it (turned out to be a profile corruption issue). So he did his presentation in excel with and wrote something that captured a mouse click and used it to activate the next sheet in the workbook. I was vaguely impressed as he wasn’t a programmer by any means.