"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> "Clarence1898" <dle### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> > I was going through some old drives and found this one.  I posted this probably
> > 20 years ago as my obligatory first RSOCP.  I came across Povray in the early
> > 90s and have used it off and on ever since.  I thought it might be interesting
> > to see what programming Pov scenes would be like in the 1970's.  Just for a
> > little background, I've been a mainframe programmer since 1969, and now enjoy
> > programming PC's.
>
> Getting around to commenting on this scene a little late . . .
>
> This is a pretty cool scene.
> I really like the Selectric ball, and the punch cards.
>
> I remember playing with shoeboxes full of punch cards at my grandparents' house
> growing up.
> They still sell the tractor-feed paper:  apparently lots of businesses still use
> it.
>
> The font on the paper and punch cards is nice - and I like the traditional
> slipping into the scene of "Persistence of Vision" on the cards.  :)
>
> I put a bunch of such Easter Eggs into my Secret Passage scene.
>
> It's good to see that you're still playing with POV-Ray all these many years
> later.
>
> - BW

Thank You.  As of ten years ago when I retired, most of our printing was done on
a laser printer using plain white fanfold paper.  We still had an impact line
printer for forms that could not be printed on the laser, heavy paper like card
stock and multi-part forms.  It was a lot of fun to write a macro to generate
the proper punches in the card.

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