{"id":533,"date":"2009-01-05T11:19:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T16:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2009-01-05T11:27:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T16:27:12","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-tech-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/533\/retro-scan-of-the-week-tech-sketch","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Not Quite Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/sketch_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/sketch_small.jpg\" alt=\"Paint-N-Sketch Level II Ad - 1983\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Click above to see the full advertisement<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This ad for Tech-Sketch&#8217;s <em>Paint-N-Sketch Level II<\/em> brings back memories.  My first encounter with computer art came courtesy of <em>KoalaPaint<\/em> and the KoalaPad tablet on the Atari 800.  Later, I fell in love with <em>MousePaint<\/em> on my family&#8217;s Apple IIc.  Using the mouse and creating shapes on the screen was a magical experience, and I regularly begged my father to boot it up for me so I could doodle around in four glorious colors.  Because of the program&#8217;s title, I was convinced it had something to do with Mickey Mouse.<\/p>\n<p>Not too long after, my dad sold the Apple IIc, and I lacked an outlet for computer art until he bought a Macintosh SE in 1987.  But that&#8217;s another story all together.  Now it&#8217;s your turn.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Electronic Games, December 1983. ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> Tell us about your first computer art experience.  What computer and software did you use?<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click above to see the full advertisement This ad for Tech-Sketch&#8217;s Paint-N-Sketch Level II brings back memories. My first encounter with computer art came courtesy of KoalaPaint and the KoalaPad tablet on the Atari 800. Later, I fell in love with MousePaint on my family&#8217;s Apple IIc. Using the mouse and creating shapes on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,40,27,26,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-macintosh","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-technology-commentary","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","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=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}