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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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No, it's usually just the out-patient procedures where they actually request that you "unleash ye olde dragon" before letting you go home.
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I forgot about keeping film in the fridge. It shows how long it's been since I last used my film camera.
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Sold all my Leica gear after they stopped making film. Never felt the need to master Photoshop and its ilk. There is something more "real" about a darkroom, whatever "real" is. Most of a photograph happens in the darkroom anyway IMO
More than one musician learned to play in the graveyard, 'tis said.
I've been using digital cameras since 2003, and goofed around with/sold them prior to that. I just don't have a scanner that can do film. If I ever got one, it has to be capable of scanning up through 8x10 negatives, and of course color, too. I have thousands of transparencies and negatives (b&w and color) in various formats - 35mm, 120 roll film (645, 6x6, 6x7,6x9), 2 1/4 x3 1/4 sheet, 4x5, and 8x10!
Good question. I used to think maybe I did, but now it's pretty clear that I don't. I have a long background with technology, so:
I don't have a Facebook account. Never have, never will.
I'm not addicted to my phone.
I value and protect my privacy.
I keep a low online profile.
I believe there are downsides to technology.
I don't trust autonomous vehicles or the reliability of the current AI technology, or the urge to make money with it ASAP.
No, I definitely don't fit in.
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They used to have a drum scanner where I worked. It was a big thing, the drum rotated at a high speed while a sensor with a microscope lense moved along a linear path scanning.
I was dismayed when one day I went in and found that they had thrown it out.
Are your transparencies stable? You hear of horror stories with film and magnetic tape degrading with time and storage conditions.
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Knowing a computer make that use(d) drum memory is seriously old...
Neither do I. No other social media either for secutity reasons.
We had a small benchtop DEC computer with this big see through plastic cover over the memory. In BSD UNIX there was a /dev/drum disk partition for swapping which dated back to the days of drum memory.
The image scanner was similar to this but older looking. The film was mounted onto a drum, a motor would spin it. It would scan in three passes for RGB.
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DEC was an employer of mine. Cut my teeth on a PDP-8.
Companies like DEC were the place to be at one time. We had a PDP-8, then an 11. Never ran OS/8 as I recall, we used UNIX. At that time you could read all the UNIX source code, and understand it.
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I was IT manager for a company with about 175 users. There were only 2 people who didn't have Facebook accounts. Me and the other IT guy.
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At the time you could read the lights on the front panel of the PDP-8 and know what the computer was doing ....
I worked on a machine (NCR 315) that didn’t use an 8-bit byte. Memory was organized in 12-bit slabs. Thus giving rise to my handle.
A big 315 had 10k of memory while a giant one had 20k. That memory held the 315 executive (O/S), programs, and data. Needless to say that everything was written in 315 assembler (i.e., NEAT).
Although the world moves on, we all do continue to fit into it, one way or another. We are all "on the spectrum" of whatever world you may consider. The only difficult part is coming to terms with our lot in the "world" we choose. Maybe we just need to pursue other worlds. There are worlds of worlds to choose from.
I'm not as good at some new parts of the digital world as my grandkids, but I'm much better at some older parts of the digital world than they are! Different parts of the digital spectrum. But I'm lightyears ahead of them in the rational/tactical/philosophical world(s).
"Know thyself." was etched into the stonework over one of the doorways of one of my early schools. Not sure I'm there, yet. But the pursuit has brought a certain peace, if not contentment.
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