Greetings All,
I have been working with digital grafx since I bought my fisrt computer back in 1985. It was a Commodore 64. Back then the graphics that I produced were crude and I tried to use the mouse to draw. Later I built some light pens from schematics that I found in magazines that catered to C64 users.
I bought my first PC in 1989 from a company called Zeos. It came with MSDOS 4.0 and that was all. I bought several graphics programs for my Zeos box. I also bought a hand scanner to transport photos and drawings into the computer.
Since then I have built several computers. Each time I have made upgrades to the operating systems, software applications, and to hardware. Now I use the computer as a graphics and audio/video workstation. I now do audio/video production, photography, computer graphics and animation from the comfort of my home.
Life is good! 
APMauldin, The Original HyReZ
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