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High school in Paris. A PDP 11/32 running BASIC on a teletype. I learned how to make ASCII art posters copied from Creative Computing magazine. Independently in
by kaveh808 4y ago
High school in Paris. A PDP 11/32 running BASIC on a teletype. I learned how to make ASCII art posters copied from Creative Computing magazine. Independently invented/rediscovered run length encoding.
- djmips 4y agoI kind of love how not having the Internet meant a lot of 'inventing' things on your own. I also 'discovered' RLE and Shannon-Fano coding amongst many other already discovered things. But it was a total blast and good for the mind.
- kaveh808 4y agoYes. I also discovered/invented the Z-buffer while working a summer job at Xerox doing molecular graphics.