David Buck <dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote:
> On 2023-03-19 5:36 a.m., Chris Cason wrote:
> > On 19/03/2023 15:28, Mike Miller wrote:
> >> OMG, yes CIS GRAPHDEV, Compuserve and my dialup modem. It's all coming
> >> back to
> >> me. :) Yes, it's been a while. Compuserve was located in my hometown of
> >> Columbus, OH. ...go bucks.
> >
> > I wonder if any of the old forums on CIS are archived anywhere. It would
> > be kind of like time travel to look back on them. I do have a fair chunk
> > of forum messages cached in my offline reader, as of the time it shut
> > down. But that's not a full archive.
> >
> >> I been wondering if any other old timers are still around. Like
> >> Farmer, Wells, Brown
> >
> > Very few from the CIS days are around. For some of them it's probably 30
> > years. Interests change, people move on. I occasionally exchange email
> > with Chris Young or David Buck. Chris was likely the team leader back in
> > the time you were active so you may remember him. He has a YouTube
> > channel at https://www.youtube.com/@cyborg555/videos
>
>
> I'm still around and check into these forums and pop my head in from
> time to time.  I still use POV-Ray from time to time and frequently talk
> about it.  I haven't been involved in the coding of POV-Ray since the
> early 1990's.
>
> David (Kirk) Buck

Hi David,
nice to hear from you. I was very happy to discover that POV still has a strong
following. The support here has been great! I blame you for planting the 3D bug
inside me. :)
Best regards,
Mike

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On 2023-03-19 1:15 p.m., Mike Miller wrote:
> Hi David,
> nice to hear from you. I was very happy to discover that POV still has a strong
> following. The support here has been great! I blame you for planting the 3D bug
> inside me. :)
> Best regards,
> Mike

Guilty as charged.

A while ago I ran a Kickstarter (it didn't get funded) and made a video 
using POV-Ray.  It sort of explains my background and my interests. 
Check it out:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pigeontalk/pigeontalk-a-programming-environment-to-explore-computing?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=PigeonTalk

David Buck

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Cousin Ricky <ric### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> On 2023-03-19 00:28 (-4), Mike Miller wrote:
> >
> > OMG, yes CIS GRAPHDEV, Compuserve and my dialup modem. It's all coming back to
> > me. :) Yes, it's been a while. Compuserve was located in my hometown of
> > Columbus, OH. ...go bucks.
>
> So, what happened to their football team last fall?  First, they go to
> sleep in the second half against Michigan, then they blow the semifinal
> against Georgia for want of a field goal.

Haha... We had Michigan's number for a lot of years. not sure what
happened...and now our basketball team sucks. :)

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On 3/19/23 05:28, Mike Miller wrote:

> I been wondering if any other old timers are still around. Like Farmer, Wells,
> Brown... I had a lot of fun hanging with people much smarter than me back then -
> and I still do. :)

    101### [at] compuservecom was here :)


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tTh <tth### [at] noneinvalid> wrote:
> On 3/19/23 05:28, Mike Miller wrote:
>
> > I been wondering if any other old timers are still around. Like Farmer, Wells,
> > Brown... I had a lot of fun hanging with people much smarter than me back then -
> > and I still do. :)
>
>     101### [at] compuservecom was here :)
>
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Very cool tTh. Love the time-laps work. Did you post the scene file? Sorry I
can't read French but I saw a lot of great stuff there.

I'd like to see how you handle the 'hide scheme'.
Best regards,
Mike.

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On 4/10/23 21:15, Mike Miller wrote:

>>      101### [at] compuservecom was here :)
>>
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> Very cool tTh. Love the time-laps work. Did you post the scene file? Sorry I
> can't read French but I saw a lot of great stuff there.

    Code is here -> http://la.buvette.org/POV/Inside/c/ but, for me,
    it was juste a big mess of gruik code :)

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