My first computer animation was programmed on an IBM 370 mainframe (8 megabytes RAM), rendered frame-by-frame on a Tektronix vector display, photographed with a Pentax K1000 35mm camera, and processed by Miller Labs into a 16mm film strip. This was in the mid 1980s and the equipment I used was already more than 10 years old at the time. Was it a classy animation? No, not particularly -- but it was within the capacity of my means.
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