Which kind? The one that displays transparencies or the opaque projector that displays books and papers?
-PJ
Posted on 04/15/2009 9:51:45 AM PDT by EveningStar
Looking back at the 20th century, it's clear that even the biggest and baddest gadget sensations will one day fall victim to technological evolution.
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Which kind? The one that displays transparencies or the opaque projector that displays books and papers?
-PJ
“...I still do have a VHS but only for converting to DVD....”
I’ve got a LOT of VHS tapes laying aroung that needs converting. Can you recomend a really good VHS-only player. The ones I have have all died. Thanx in advance.
we had Zenith “micro-computers” and he told the class that they had a “Z8080” processor chip.
Probably a Z89, the Zenith version of the Heathkit H89. That used a Z80 (two, actually; it was a computer and a terminal built into a single box and each one had its own Z80).
I don't think Zenith sold the earlier H8, which used an 8080.
-PJ
Just paid $275.00 for repairs on a gold/diamond Black,Starr and Frost watch that I’ve had since 1990....And of course I hardley wear it??
I meant the one that displays transparencies..I'd never even heard of the other thingee...kind of looks like a robot from a 50's Sci-Fi movie
No more slide show parties of that vacation to Miami Beach?
-PJ
Remember the Bell & Howell 8mm movie camera with the 3 lenses?
One of my fraternity brothers in 1964 had a 45rpm record player in his GTO...it sat on the console between the bucket seats.. There was a spring that pushed the arm against the record..everytime you hit a bump..which in NYC streets was every 5 ft or so..it either skipped or gouged a hole in the vinyl....
Go ahead..lemme see you find a pic of that..
For 95% of photographers, the difference is insignificant. (I'm assuming you refer to light/color response, rather than shutter release time...)
With regard to resolution, witness the Nikon D3X.
35mm film has roughly 20 megapixel resolution. The D3X? 24.5 megapixels.
Yes, it's currently an $8,000 camera, but that boat on the horizon is headed our way quickly. For the great majority of uses, the age of film is drawing to a close.
-PJ
I remember seen a digital insert for film SLR cameras.
I think that would be great for some of the older but well built high end film cameras.
Being facetious? Or did you really need to ask?
2. Floppy disks: Considering the state of computer technology at the end of the 1970s, it’s no wonder people were astounded by the usefulness of the 5 1/4-inch wide, 360-KB floppy disk.
5 1/4 inch? Hah, puny storage. Real programmers used 8-inch floppies.
Actually, REAL programmers used 12-inch floppies.
These came before the 8-inch.
Typical argument 8” 12” yada, yada, yada.
Old technology. 3D LCD monitors put old shutter style 3D apps to shame. Plus, since it’s not refresh rate related, there are no headaches.
Completely untrue. A 20 LCD only pulls 45 watts or so out of the line while a 17” CRT pulls twice as much at a whopping 90 watts. At any size, an LCD will have a larger viewable area and use less than half the power of a CRT.
The only area in which LCD’s truly fail is that they aren’t very scaleable. Resolutions lower than the monitors native resolution, almost always look like crap.
So that when people who are surrounded by clocks ask me the time I can tell them.
Teaching college students, probably 95 percent of mine have a cell phone. Maybe one in twenty puts down a land line as their connection, and that's usually one of their parent's phones.
It isn’t about “megapixels”. That’s marketing working on you.
Even Canon’s developers got frustrated with that bar of measure. It’s all about the optical sensor.
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