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Home-made computer Top Trump-style cards from... oooh guess the year... this is pre-ZX Spectrum and the Apple /// should be a clue.
The only one of these I ever used was the PET, though I think my brother-in-law had a Nascom and I have vague recollections of someone having a UK101. I remember I really wanted an Acorn System 1 for some mad reason.
Optimus-branded Pentium-class PC, 300 MHz, 128 MB RAM, Soundblaster sound card, DOS 6.22, Duke Nukem 3D + Philips monitor, PS/2 keyboard and mouse
Fetch was one of the first outright awesome FTP clients for any platform, and Noah still had version 2.0 installed on the machine. Again, this was a good thing, since it was the way that I was able to get his files off of the machine, and able to get a secure deletion utility *onto* the machine to get rid of any trace of his files.
Macintosh IIsi (M0360) with Macintosh Color Display (M1212), AppleDesign Keyboard (M2980) and MacAlly mouse.
Why document all this?
Because it's about to change. Everything. Stay tuned for updates, I'm comin' into the 21st century with my editing rig!
My brother's Kim-1, the first computer I ever used.
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Sign on C-Dek reads, "They laughed when I sat down at the computer"; Sign beside Machine reads, "Automated charging station. Summer school students having new student [text on additional white paper indiscernible] punched cards at manual station. Other borrowers without new library cards charge all books at manual charging station."
This is a digital rendition of a 35mm transparency scanned with an Epson Perfection 4490 Photo scanner. Some colour restoration has been applied.
Mohammed Mustapha Yadjalal founded a school in his Nima home in 1984. In 1986, when it reached the point that he had 400 students in his home, the school moved to its present site, and was later taken over by the Islamic Education Unit of the Ghana Education Service. Students learn Arabic and Islamic studies from 8:00 - 10:00am, and then a conventional English curriculum from 10:00am - 3:00pm. He is pictured in his office at the school.
50017 since preserved back in 1984 not long out of Doncaster works and recently painted in large logo. Scan of one of my dads negs.
October 13, 2007 (Saturday) - This will be the last weekend that I spend with this old friend as my main PC. My computer shop is building me a new one.
This image is in a set called the "Daily Picture Parade". Whereas the focus of my eJournal and images blog is on ideas. Here, I can emphasize places I go by shooting and adding an image each day. I started this in July of 2005. Doing so has reminded me to constantly carry my camera to create a direct record of my personal experiences.
This was right before Christmas as there's the Christmas tree to the right in the picture. Char had about 6 more weeks to go before she delivered her son, Jordan.