Mel Strawn

In the Artist's Own Words
"My own experience with the computer began in 1981 when I, under the more or less innocent guise of "a gift for the family," acquired a newly available VIC-20, a very small home computer which could display eight colors and had no paint program. In fact, it had no programs that emulated the tools artists use. It could be used to make rather interesting but simple designs or pictures via direct input from the keyboard of a couple of dozen or so graphic character shapes in its eight colors, or via programs written in BASIC."