Finite State Fantasies An Incredible Computer Culture Comic by Rich Didday with a forward by Raymond Langsford Matrix Publishers, Inc, Champaign Illinois, USA This astonishing comic book, published in July 1976, gives a wonderfully graphic look at the emerging culture around the kit personal computer and casts an eye far into the future of virtual worlds and shared cyberspace.

finite-state-fantasie-inner.jpg Front and Back Covers cover-front.jpg cover-back.jpg A Story of Virtual Reality: ESCAPE (this astonishing piece might be the first conceptualization of a digital virtual world and avatars running on a personal computer) escape1.jpg escape2.jpg escape3.jpg escape4.jpg escape5.jpg escape6.jpg escape7.jpg escape8.jpg Parody Ad (would you buy a computer from this man?) nite-flyer.jpg Opposing Computer Manufacturers Struggle for Market Supremacey (and what else has changed?) struggle-whole.jpg Its Just Another Tool (a prescient warning) just-another-tool.jpg More about Matrix Publishers, Inc. about-matrix.jpg More links on "Fantasies" Classic Computer's pages on Classic Computer Publications (see whole scan of "Fantaises") hosted by Bill Richman Also see: Kiel Bryant Hosier's Compubots

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