My first contact with a computer was a printout of Snoopy made out of xâs and oâs and ampersands. I donât remember where it was, and not what the computer looked like – although in my head I saw it during one of our field trips during my two weeks with the scouts and it was one of those room-sized mainframes but both claims are just as likely to be fake memories I created as I typed this â but I can see that Snoopy as clearly as if I was holding the two-tone continuous form paper in my hand right now.Â
To me, it was the work of genius. Looking at it up close, it was just a mess of characters, but once you took two steps back, there was Snoopy dancing! Snoopy!
If thatâs what computers could do, count me in! However, it took me a couple of years to get my hands on one.Â