{"id":23650,"date":"2026-03-07T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23650"},"modified":"2026-03-07T12:52:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:52:56","slug":"computer-animation-in-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/07\/computer-animation-in-1971\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer animation in 1971 (!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The older I get, the harder it is to get the Kids These Days\u2122 to grok just what a road-to-Damascus moment the arrival of the Mac presented. I flap my arms like some conspiracy nut at his cork board, trying in vain to convey the idea that in the pre-Mac days, personal computer “art” consisted of pecking out some green ASCII blocks on an Apple ][. Okay, grandpa, let’s get you to bed…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, predating even me (heh) is this glimpse of how computer animation was painstakingly eeked out via data tape (!) back in 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n

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