077 of 365
Retired objects
My computers seem to stay around forever. Here is my first color computer -- MacIntosh LC dating from about 1990, and my first PowerMac -- the 7100 from about 1994. Both have been retired for 25-30 years. I don't know why I hang on to them.
I didn't look at it carefully, but on top may be my first ever external hard disk. If it is, I paid roughly $1000 for 100 MB hard drive in 1990. At the time, that seemed like an enormous amount of storage compared to the 640 KB you could put on a floppy disk.
Since this photo was taken deep in our dark and dirty basement, I was inspired to finally dig out my speed light to provide lighting. Until today, every other photo that needed lighting was done with the ring light I bought when we were doing on-line instruction during last year's COVID lockdown.
077 of 365
Retired objects
My computers seem to stay around forever. Here is my first color computer -- MacIntosh LC dating from about 1990, and my first PowerMac -- the 7100 from about 1994. Both have been retired for 25-30 years. I don't know why I hang on to them.
I didn't look at it carefully, but on top may be my first ever external hard disk. If it is, I paid roughly $1000 for 100 MB hard drive in 1990. At the time, that seemed like an enormous amount of storage compared to the 640 KB you could put on a floppy disk.
Since this photo was taken deep in our dark and dirty basement, I was inspired to finally dig out my speed light to provide lighting. Until today, every other photo that needed lighting was done with the ring light I bought when we were doing on-line instruction during last year's COVID lockdown.