[prosaic-hacker]

In fall 1975 in my senior year of High school, I toured the local Junior College (Vanier CEGEP) and saw a lab with a HP 9830A driving a HP flatbed plotter producing Biorhythm plots. I applied to that college and a year later the lab become my second home. I learned the 9830A Rocky Mountain Basic, wrote and shared many program on cassette tapes. The most fun was shared game we called Cosmic Pinball. Shells fired at static planets with the ballistic plots drawn out on the flatbed plotter. Longest run took 18 minutes before it finally hit 1 of the 7 planets. I should rewrite it in python.