Looking for "Programming CalComp Electromechanical Plotters" book

Richard, tell me how to proceed - damn the torpedoes, I can send these packages to you offlist. Send your email. I am at rdawson AT ieee.org The revamped MOVIE.BYU was known as CQUEL.BYU. I sort of twisted the developers arms to give me the source, and then set up the business model to buy it. The story is, it never really got finished, they worked on a windows port for a little while, wrote their own GUI "OwenLook". Somehow, later they got sucked into the 3d gradient surface array code for groundwater modeling and visualization. I Lost them due to their interest (corp funding?) in this, and they abandoned CQUEL.BYU The thing ran fine under linux, there is a substantial amount of the code devoted to beveled buttons, radio knobs. It did not suck in anything but xlib, the GUI was all done within. The raytracer works OK, the 3D scene editor is pretty lame by todays standards (Maya, Blender) The scripting language was pretty good however. I used it and some of the quaternion code to learn from and later write the PC COASTER! roller coaster simulator. First months sales $245,000.....back in the day when I was fab! There is a patent on a piece of the code, for 3D deformation, but I think this is standard knowledge now. Its in all the Maya stuff, to do organic things like facial expressions and character deformation. I too, had a stable of SGI in a carpeted air conditioned garage. Most of it came from Compaq after the HP acquisition. My hero story on the 4D was bringing it up. You would plug it in, it would boot and the graphics screen would come up, with a background Compaq logo, and standard Xlogin enter password. LOCKED OUT!!! What to do? from the boot, there was a debug monitor, cant remember, rim or something like that. I was able to pipe the hard drive to the RS-232, then capture it on the PC as a file, and search for the encrypted password string files. With tools we all know, and a combination of a dictonary attack and a touch typist move of the home fingers from asdf jkl; to qwert uiop I did get it with a dictionary attack. That took my PC all day crunching for the search, then: annamarie PASSWORD FOUND Thats hacking. I cant tell you how many beers and evenings in the garage it took, lost trails and to think up this solution, but the supreme satisfaction of entering the password, and having the machine up was worth it all. The source code to 'Chicago' (windows 3.0) was on here, but, I have lost it and the machine. (And the G.F. due to the hacking, beer drinking in the garage and I'll be in soon...., honey) Alias was there too, I had always thought it was wonderful from what I had seen and heard of it and Wavefront. I could not figure out the old GUI user interface, just barely able to load up a couple of models on the machine, of PC cases, they looked like injection molding renderings. Graphics is fun, Let me know what you are up to. Sorry for the long post. This, however is one of many stories I have about the early days of CG.... Randy PS I have Dore' running too, the Stardent/Ardent package and all source. Its in the BSD PORTS tree, builds just fine.... _________________________________________________________________ Explore the seven wonders of the world http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=7+wonders+world&mkt=en-US&form…