{"id":684,"date":"2007-09-25T23:27:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T23:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=684"},"modified":"2007-09-25T23:27:38","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T23:27:38","slug":"blast_from_the_past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/blast_from_the_past\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to a seminar<\/a> tonight about digital photography.
\nGOING DIGITAL: THE ABCS OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
\nMARK RICHARDS, Photographer
\nSCOTT BUDMAN, NBC 11 Technology\/Business Reporter; Host, TechNow!
\nSTEWART BUTTERFIELD, General Manager and Co-founder, Flickr
\nLARRY MAGID, Syndicated Technology Columnist – Moderator
\nMore 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.<\/em>
\nSounds interesting, right? Wrong. The event’s description sounded a lot more interesting than the actual event which had the co-founder of Flickr<\/a>, 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*
\nThe event was held at the Computer History Museum<\/a> that had a lot of (guess!) old computers inside. Very retro!
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\nThe computer that started an empire, the US$666.66 (in 1974 US$) Apple 1!<\/em>
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\nI think this is a very old ATC system…<\/em>
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\nHere’s an almost as old IBM mainframe (ask your grandparents what this is)<\/em>
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\nThis is a Cray-1 Supercomputer<\/a>, circa 1976. I think it’s a neat piece of furniture!<\/em>
\nModern day high end PC processors, like the ones in your lappy or desktop are 100 times faster than the Cray-1. Amazing lah.
\nHere’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??
\nGeez…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … <\/p>\n

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