{"id":1035,"date":"2014-03-31T19:43:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T00:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2015-09-25T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T14:20:34","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-benjs-early-computer-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1035\/retro-scan-of-the-week-benjs-early-computer-art","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Benj&#8217;s Early Computer Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/benj_kindergarten_computer_art_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/benj_kindergarten_computer_art_small.jpg\" alt=\"Benj's Early Computer Art Kindergarten Art Print Printout 1986\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Watch out, Mr. Rabbit!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve previously mentioned, I&#8217;ve found a wealth of Retro Scan material while looking through old family papers in the attic at my mom&#8217;s house.<\/p>\n<p>This time, I was sorting through a giant box of my ancient artwork from school, and I came upon this fascinating computer printout from my kindergarten era (1985-86).<\/p>\n<p>I vaguely remember making it (although, strangely, I mostly remember coloring in those little boxes and being proud of it), but I have no idea what software I used to do it.  I know that my school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/480\" target=\"_blank\">stocked itself with IBM PCs<\/a>, but the font and the overall feel of the image remind me of an Apple II MECC educational game.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the platform, this looks like the output from a stamp\/clip-art program for kids.  Does anybody know what it is?<\/p>\n<p><em>[ <strong>Update: 09\/25\/2015<\/strong> &#8211; I figured out what game this is.  After going through a pile of MECC disks for the Apple II, I ran across one game called<\/em> <strong>Paint With Words<\/strong> <em>(published by M.E.C.C. in 1986).  I booted it up on my Apple IIc, and sure enough, it is the program used to create the image in this scan.  It is a really neat game that allows you to place words onto a pre-defined background image using a mouse or a keyboard.  After you set them in place, the words turn into pictures of what the words represent. My family owned an Apple IIc circa 1984-1987, so I believe this printout was created at home. ]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From 8.5 x 11-inch tractor feed printout, circa 1985-86]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What was the first computer paint program you ever used?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch out, Mr. Rabbit! As I&#8217;ve previously mentioned, I&#8217;ve found a wealth of Retro Scan material while looking through old family papers in the attic at my mom&#8217;s house. This time, I was sorting through a giant box of my ancient artwork from school, and I came upon this fascinating computer printout from my kindergarten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,7,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}