15 Apr
2013
15 Apr
'13
9:18 p.m.
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Tony Duell wrote:
I think I've mentioend this before, but whenever I
see an advert for a
computer, or some poor salesman tries to sell me one, they tell me it can
store all my photos [1], store all my msuic [2]. etc. Not a single word
about programming it . And yet that's waht I want a computer for.
[1] Oh yes? What, even 5*4 sheet film?
[2] And 1/4" recording tape?
A hollowed out microcomputer can hold a few thousand sheets of 4x5 film,
or half a dozen reels of 1/2" recording tape.
A hollowed out minicomputer, . . .
A hollowed out mainfram, . . .
My classic computers do all I need to do....
I
only have a few hundred sheets of film, a few thousand 35mm
negatives and/or transparencies, and less than a thousand feet of 16mm
film. It doesn't take a very large computer case to hold those.
Maybe I should consider digitizing most of it.
I have to admit that my cameras occupy more space than my total cumulative
output from them.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com