Professionally I was a computer programmer, and was anxious to use the computer for photography. I connected a black and white video camera to an S100 bus computer and was able to get images that were 128 x128 pixels. The pictures were printed on a typewriter, using different letters of the alphabet to represent shades of gray--the asterisk was dark gray and the period was light gray. I described this in one of the PSA Techniques circuits at the time.

When the Mac II came out with 256 colors I thought that was amazing and had to have one. In a few years Apple came out with a 24bit color standard and I was able to make fair prints on an HP inkjet. I couldn't use a resolution greater than 640x480 because the computer was just too slow.

All this was just experiments. I hadn't produced any pictures good enough for competition. Finally Epson came out with a photo realistic printer and I got some good scans by having my pictures put on a Kodak Photo CD.

Now I have a Mac G4 with two 450 Mhz processors and two Epson 1200's. One has a continuous inking system with MIS archival ink. Memory is so cheap that I just added a gigabyte of ram for $120.

I have been in the PSA digital circuits for several years, first in Circuit #1 with Milan Sedio and in Circuit #3 with Don vonWolffradt.