Blast from the Past

I went to a seminar tonight about digital photography.
GOING DIGITAL: THE ABCS OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
MARK RICHARDS, Photographer
SCOTT BUDMAN, NBC 11 Technology/Business Reporter; Host, TechNow!
STEWART BUTTERFIELD, General Manager and Co-founder, Flickr
LARRY MAGID, Syndicated Technology Columnist – Moderator
More than 3 million U.S. consumers will buy digital cameras this year. Whether you are an absolute beginner, a photography enthusiast or a professional photographer, join us as our panel of experts leads us through the latest trends, techniques and innovations in this digital field.
Sounds interesting, right? Wrong. The event’s description sounded a lot more interesting than the actual event which had the co-founder of Flickr, a broadcast “journalist” and a baby boomer photographer whining about the injustice of how people without computer skills will lose out on sharing photos that are on computers, yadda yadda. About a third of the audience walked out after the first 20 minutes (the under 40 crowd). What was left was the over-40 crowd. Fun! *rolls eyes*
The event was held at the Computer History Museum that had a lot of (guess!) old computers inside. Very retro!

The computer that started an empire, the US$666.66 (in 1974 US$) Apple 1!

I think this is a very old ATC system…

Here’s an almost as old IBM mainframe (ask your grandparents what this is)

This is a Cray-1 Supercomputer, circa 1976. I think it’s a neat piece of furniture!
Modern day high end PC processors, like the ones in your lappy or desktop are 100 times faster than the Cray-1. Amazing lah.
Here’s some other “amazing” stuff. Although it’s more of the “wah lau” kind of amazing. While eating dinner, I saw people in polo shirts with their collars turned up. A lot. Is it the 80s’ again?? When I was in the PRC, I saw a lot of this. Maybe the techies that go there to manufacture computers goods brought back this style??
Geez…