Engineer Dave Sieg has spent the last 20 years preserving the only working Scanimate, an analog motion graphics machine that was the staple of film/tv animation in the 70’s and 80’s.
But in the 1980s, most kids didn’t have access to the Internet, integrated development environments, rich graphics, or even a choice of languages. What we had were 8-bit home computers, a blinking cursor, and Basic.
In this exclusive interview we learn more about how Tatsuya developed his career as an instrument designer and what continues to spark his curiosity and motivation today.
“When we first opened (1978), we were like, we’re going to make the best breakfast, because nobody else cares about it,” Hagberg said. “You can go to Elmer’s and all those places, but they don’t really care about it. We wanted to make it good. And so we did.”
Really gonna miss that place. It’s pretty much the only place I reliably went for sit-down breakfast downtown.