My Introduction To Computer Graphics

Boeing's PDP-7/340 Most of my career has been involved in various ways with computer graphics. Below the fold I recount the story of how I got started in the field just as it was getting started. To give you some idea of just how early my introduction was the Mother of all Demos had been the year before. The displays I got to work with drew lines in monochrome, not rasters in color. You created the image by writing a loop of instructions in the "display processor" instruction set. These told it the lines to draw at each refresh cycle. There was no mouse. Haberdashers' Aske's School From age 11 to 18 I was extraordinarily fortunate to attend the Haberdashers' Aske's School, one of the London Guild schools: The school was founded in 1690 by a Royal Charter granted to the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers to establish a hospital for 20 boarders with £32,000 from the legacy of Robert Aske (equivalent to approximately £5m in 2019). In those days it was a "direct grant" public (i.e.…