Positive Video, in Orinda, CA, was one of the first facilities in the U.S. to have a Paintbox. I think it arrived in late 1983. Roger Mocenigo was the artist who ran it. Our first big project with it was Atari’s videodisc-based arcade game, Firefox.

For a few evenings in 1984 or maybe 85, Jerry Garcia rented the whole place out and played on the Paintbox.

We were also one of the first facilities to have a Quantel Mirage. We hired a math guru out of Berkeley, Eddie Elliot, to program the Mirage (Pascal). Jerry Garcia rented that, too. He had a bunch of analog graphics created on an Aurora system that he wanted to run through the Mirage.