Stu rode down to the Los Angeles City Hall and registered subLogic as Bruce’s business under its "fictitious name." Bruce wasn’t even at City Hall. The 1977 meetings got "corporate" subLogic rolling. Modern Google street view of Bruce’s apartment on Culver Blvd. but it was a comfortable lair from which Bruce created the 3D Transformation programs which got subLogic rolling.īruce and Stu would often eat at (of course) Jack-In-The-Box. When Bruce got home from work, he introduced Stu to the concept of an apartment which smells from the famous LA smog.
Stu arrived at Bruce’s apartment at 2 PM, with blackened alligator skin but an adventurous attitude.
“synthetic-aperture radar.” We know Bruce for software but his daily activities were in hardware. The group was working on programmable signal processors for the radar output which would produce images on a screen. They’d open a garage door and aim the radar across the city of Los Angeles at the oil rigs on Baldwin Hills. On some days he’d go up to a “roof house,” a house build on a roof of one of the Hughes buildings and work with another group which manned radar equipment. ," Bruce Artwick exits Mulholland Drive on his Honda CB200, one the smallest of his many motorcycles.īruce’s day at Hughes gave plenty of variety. His little Honda CB200 was gold in color and was nicknamed the “Bronze Wing,” a joking reference to the new big Honda “Gold Wing.” On the third day Stu would be riding though 110 degree temperatures going into California so he (naively) strapped his leathers to the sissy bar and rode in short sleeves.īesides driving a Datsun 710, Bruce enjoyed riding one of the smallest bikes (of many) he had ever owned, in California traffic. Stu Moment prepping his Kawasaki KZ-400 for a trip. Like his trailer park rent, the Kawasaki KZ-400 payments were $49 per month. The little 400cc bike was not intended as a cross-country machine, but Stu enjoyed its light weight as he made his way through the Rockies. When he was done with his summer flight students, Stu set out on his Kawasaki KZ-400 to visit Bruce in Los Angeles. Stu thought that running subLogic’s business operations would be fun and a nice match for his school work.
My midnight, Bruce would be asleep, ready to wake up to a new day at Hughes.īruce Artwick takes time out from Hughes engineering job as well as subLogic development to enjoy the Pacific Ocean.Įven though Stu was a full time flight and ground school instructor, he was back in school, going for his Master of Science in the College of Commerce. His article on 3-D graphics was scheduled for the October issue of Kilobaud magazine and he was busy working on the BASIC language version of his 3-D graphics. The beginning of everything, subLogic 3D Graphics for the Motorola M6800 processor, July 1977.īruce’s work day at Hughes Aircraft started at 8:00 AM but he’d always get there by 7:30 for coffee and a sweet roll in the cafeteria.īy 6 PM Bruce was back home, often eating a “Jack-In-The-Box” dinner, programming and documenting his new 3-D graphics programs. Box in Culver City, not far from where he worked as an Engineer at Hughes Aircraft. In July 1977 Bruce released "Three Dimensional Microcomputer Graphics" in the M6800 Assembly Language. building a model airplane in the back room.īruce wondered if Stu would be interested in taking on the business operations of subLogic. Stu was in the back of his home, a $49 per month trailer, enjoying some time away from his University of Illinois, Flight Instructor job as well as from college classes. In the summer of 1977, Bruce Artwick called college friend, Stu Moment.
The Flight Simulator Story, Part 1: The Beginning of subLogic