I spent my days, much to my parents chagrin, in my room copying thousands of lines of code to build rudimentary basic games as published in Byte magazine and putting the tear sheets that I’d keep in a Mead Trapper Keeper.

In my current line of work, brand advertising, I’m still in front of a computer realizing some of the vision that I read about in the pages of Byte. We even refer to ourselves, in nerd humor, as “digital unicorns.” I really salute my parents for investing in the revolution I guess we’re still calling the Information Age, because I know at the time the cost of that home computer was an enormous expense.

They still have no idea what I’m doing with myself all day.

Thanks for sharing your memories and thoughts about your first computer(s) and learning programming!

My first encounters with computers and Internet were around the years 1999-2000… but I was reading a lot about computers a few years before I first sat in front of a real computer… ))

(You started with psychology and I started with music, yet it seems we both ended with deep “computer affairs”!;-)

With our unconditional love always,
Mom and Dad

The Arc and Placeholder extensions add the drawing tools in two places: look in the Autoshapes Panel (Window > Autoshapes) and in the Toolbar in the vector shape tools (click on the little black arrow to the lower right of the Rectangle tool to open the panel and expose the other vector drawing tools.)

There was a change in how the drawing tools and autoshapes work in CS6, and I think the version of the tool in the Autoshapes Panel uses the wrong icon image, but it should still work. Everything works (and looks) normally in CS5.5 or earlier.

•Arc
•Placeholder

yet, I am unable to find them anywhere once I add them to my extension manager. All indications say it should be available, but I see nothing.

I’m not sure if there are other dependencies, or perhaps they are not compatible with CS6