i remember it like it was yesterday
around 1987ish I was working on a white cloud commercial - next to me was an incredibly talented artist - Rose Lovell. As we airbrushed the cels she talked about this computer that she and her husband had written a lightbox program for. They also had made a driver for the summagraphics tablet for this computer.
at some point she suggested I attend a local convention and when i arrived at this Amiga convention in NY and saw LIVE, and her animation program (later incorprated into DPaint) I had an epiphany
It's like I saw my future before me. It was an amazing experience. I saved my pennies and bought my Amiga 2000 in 1989 and changed my life.
