This brings back memories of my being in high school; I'd get there in the morning, run over to our Computer Programming classroom, and load a floppy into the one Apple IIe that was connected to a color TV.
I load and run a Applesoft BASIC program that plotted the Mandelbrot set - oh...so...slowly. It's one saving grace was that it used a special ML program (something I found in Byte magazine or somewhere) which - on a machine equipped with an 80 column card (and the extra memory it afforded) would enable a high-resolution mode with access to all 16 colors.
So I'd run it - and let it plot...
By the time lunchtime came around, it would be finished, and it saved the image to the floppy. I'd then manually pick some new coordinates, and run it again to "zoom" in to an interesting area.
My last period was in that class (it was an elective, and one year I took it twice per day just to pass the time and gain an easy "A") - and by that time the new plot would be done and saved.
The next day I'd repeat it again. After about four iterations, though, it would be running too slow to finish a plot in time. So - I'd start again, and zoom in somewhere else. The teacher enjoyed it, and the other students liked seeing the pretty pictures.
Nobody really understood the math, though.
I load and run a Applesoft BASIC program that plotted the Mandelbrot set - oh...so...slowly. It's one saving grace was that it used a special ML program (something I found in Byte magazine or somewhere) which - on a machine equipped with an 80 column card (and the extra memory it afforded) would enable a high-resolution mode with access to all 16 colors.
So I'd run it - and let it plot...
By the time lunchtime came around, it would be finished, and it saved the image to the floppy. I'd then manually pick some new coordinates, and run it again to "zoom" in to an interesting area.
My last period was in that class (it was an elective, and one year I took it twice per day just to pass the time and gain an easy "A") - and by that time the new plot would be done and saved.
The next day I'd repeat it again. After about four iterations, though, it would be running too slow to finish a plot in time. So - I'd start again, and zoom in somewhere else. The teacher enjoyed it, and the other students liked seeing the pretty pictures.
Nobody really understood the math, though.