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Shooting some old school (and expired) film. Picked up this old EOS 630 off of Craigslist. That's an all metal Mk.I 50mm f/1.8 on there. Don't worry, I haven't switched sides...I'm still shooting Sony/Minolta digital!
DIY light box with three daylight fluorescent lamps.
They don't make them like this anymore. I hooked up a set of batteries and it works. Does anyone still use calculators like these?
"A few weeks ago I was walking along the street in Cambridge, and in someone's trash I saw what appeared to be a Mac carrying case. I looked inside, and there was a Mac SE. I carried it home and plugged it in, and it booted. The happy Macintosh face, and then the finder. My God, it was so simple. It was just like ... Google." Great Hackers, Paul Graham
So I'm going down a street and I see a Mac being thrown out :)
20 years apart, 1992 to 2012.
update 2015MAR22
found an interesting Hackernews article, How I introduced a 27-year-old computer to the web on re-purposing Mac Plus for the Internet. [1]
[0] PG, "Great Hackers"
[Last accessed Monday March 23rd, 2015]
[1] Jeff Keacher "Plugging a 1986 Mac Plus into the Modern Web",
[Last accessed Monday March 23rd, 2015]
Soft sector 8 inch floppy and hard sector 5 1/4 inch floppy. Bonus points for anyone who can explain how I know.
Sega Megadrive II and Street Fighter cartridge, circa 1990 - Photo by @luisacivardi @verdebinario #sega #megadrive #console #retrogaming #streetfighter #computer #circuit #maker #laboratory #programmable #tech #tecnology #projects #vintagecomputer #broadcasting #oldhardware #instatech #electronicscomponents ift.tt/2IhX39K
Copyright 1983. 4585 Scotts Valley Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066. Turbo Pascal was sold through direct mail for $49.95 with no copy protection and their famous "book license" when everyone else charged $200 to $400, and Borland completely transformed the compiler market by making it readily available to jobless high school hobbyists like me.
Seagate is located at this address now after built a bajillion dollar campus on the other side of Highway 17, which is now occupied by a fitness center and is currently under renovation for some UCSC administrative offices.
Stephen Kettle's slate statue commemorating Alan Turing at the National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park
...I should learn to read before I type 'yes' I guess...
I already typed 'yes' when I read 'certain drives of over 18GB capacity are projected to require 8 hours'
I've got a 74GB drive connected... hmmmzzz... old hardware ain't always fun ;-)