FIRST SCREENING (1984)
Computer Poems
by bpNichol
http://vispo.com/bp

In 1983 and 1984, bpNichol used an Apple IIe computer and the Apple BASIC
programming language to create First Screening, a suite of a dozen
programmed, kinetic poems. He distributed First Screening through
Underwhich, an imprint he started in 1979 with a small group of poets. The
Underwhich edition of First Screening consisted of 100 numbered and signed
copies distributed on 5.25" floppies along with printed matter.

However, the Apple IIe soon became obsolete and the poems became essentially
inaccessible. But in 1992, four years after the death of bpNichol, J. B.
Hohm, a student at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, began
creating a HyperCard version of First Screening with the approval of Ellie
Nichol, bp