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The mind boggles.....
Wow!
Most technology’s designed for the military and them eventually makes it’s way to the civilian market… Imagine the file size.
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Those numbers are mad. I remember my first computer, it had a 1 gig hard drive, 256 meg or ram – it rocked. At the time I couldn’t see how I was going to fill that amount of space. How times have changed. 50 meg Raw file, in about 10 years time that’ll be small.
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Great!
I will be able to count my pubic hairs one by one should I wish to take a photograph of them!
Just what I need! More Megas and less beggars!
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“it had a 1 gig hard drive, 256 meg or ram “
Oh Paddy, you’re showing your age again aren’t you? Try 80 meg hard drive and 8 megs of RAM for my first Powerbook 145b.
So come on, you’re a Yorkie, do your best ‘4 Yorkshiremen’ and one up that!
“Eeeee by gum, when I were a lad, we used to compute wit’ shoe box ‘n middle o’ road…..”
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Hi Stuart, I’ve still got one of those buried in a cupboard, only 4MGB Ram 40MGB Hard drive - any collectors out there? I remember you and I had a digi vs film chat at Phil & Agnes (Blenkinsops) wedding some years back. Have to say I’m still struggling with shooting color let alone digital but having a young bloke that needs food, clothes and (eventually) schooling has turned me into a convert - now that I HAVE to make a living out of photojournalism and can’t ‘just’ treat it as a way of life.
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“4MGB Ram 40MGB Hard drive”
That made the 8 meg look like a beast! I passed my 145 onto Ollie Pin Fat who made a few more good years use out of it. In 1994 in Bangkok, having that machine put you in the next millennium. Blenkers had one too, little more than fancy typewriters ‘til I found out how to hook up to the web there (I knew a Thai colonel who let me use his military account!).
I’ve got a 2 yr old, so the digital is required too, but still working with tri-x and D76 on weekends! Latest stuff in the gallery.
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Yes Dave I saw you strugging , agonising over the didgy V the film body ,have you read the book yet?
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Mate, digi cameras and the instruction manuals that come with them—too many pages and a short attention span adds to the struggle.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
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80 MB Hard drive? LUXURY! I used to sit in me shoebox in the middle of the lake, with me dad beating me with a piece of barbed wire, and I IM’d my friends with a rusty sardine tin and a piece of string attached to the abacus I had made with pieces of wire stolen from the mine where I worked 48 hours a day, and beads made from my teeth what fell out due to malnutrition – so naturally, it was a 32-bit abacus – until the mainframe broke and all the beads rolled off.
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Actually my first PC was an Olivetti M19 with a green screen and no hard drive – it was just 2 floppy drives and you loaded DOS, then swapped it for the Word 3.0 disc, and had your docs on the second floppy drive. It was a 286 processor and had 256 KILOBYTES or RAM and it never once let me down. Then a few years later I got an Amiga with 1 MEGABYTE of RAM, a color screen and a mouse – and I could do video stuff on it that would probably still look cool today.
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lisa h—-You have a way of summarizing that wouldn’t occur to me. LOL.
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Megabytes of Ram? LUXURY! When I lived in the cave just at the end of the last Ice Age, with my Mum nagging at me not to go to Grunk’s place but to finish gnawing my leg off where it had gotten gangrene I used to contact my friends by chewing up bettlenut and then spitting it at my hand on the wall. It was the best way of letting the tribe know there was a party keg on at my place and it was really effective until Krakatoa spoilt the whole thing…
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I guess I should start selling off my Kodak stock now, shouldnt I?
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