He [Newman] and David Adamson (the printmaker and publisher who also runs the Adamson Gallery) may have been the first artists in the city to fiddle with computers. They began in 1978. "In those days," Adamson remembers, "only place to buy them was in the vacuum cleaner department at Hecht's." They were primitive machines -- quarter-inch pixels, 128K, black-and-white, and slow -- but Newman loved his from the start.