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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I’m not. Proud luddite here.
Uses less power. And some of the flat panels can give me a headache.
I remember using IBM Key Punch Machines to do COBAL, RPG-II programs for an old Burroughs B1740 computer in my Senior Accounting & Computing class in 1981. BASIC was just starting out and the Z8080 processor was the newest thing. Wow, how far we’ve come!
Let me know when digital blur and the video edge highlight disappears.
Let me know when “digital motion blur”...
A polaroid looks different from film too.
Always will.
I went back a few years ago to using by grandmother’s 1964 percolator. It never fails.
The place where the eventual loss of film cameras will really be felt is in publishing, especially newspapers if they last as long as film cameras. Very few papers have made arrangements to keep all the shots taken at an assignment. In the film days the photographer would put all the negs from a shoot in an envelope marked with the date, story slug and various other info. That’s no longer done. They hang on to the images that are actually published and a couple of others that were put into the archive system to be available to reporters, page designers and editors. The newspaper where I worked had negs going back over 80 years, often with a neatly folded copy of the article in which the pictures were used.
A lot of really important pictures have surfaced over the years when someone went back into the files to see what else was shot that day. It was not uncommon for the photographer to shoot five or six rolls of film and then keep it all filed away.
Then had to wait long lines at stations that had power in a city chock full of engineers.
Not in my neighborhood. No alternative to my stupid, slow dial-up including satellite because of the mountains. Kill dial-up and I have no access whatsoever.
So I can know the time from a glance at my wrist. When for some reason I'm not wearing one (rarely), I'm always looking at my bare wrist, mumbling an explicative, and fumbling for my phone or another source. It's just what you are used to, I'm sure. Chronographs and alarms are also handy on a watch; not so much on a phone.
Haven't you noticed that the more clocks you have, the less you know what the proper time is?
Because it goes with you, it’s a personal device. None of the devices you list, except the cell phone, go with you.
Plenty of people do not wear a watch, but many still do and will continue too.
jw
Like LA Times and Al Reuters:
Photojournalism in Crisis (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™) (Editor & Publisher August 18, 2006 David D. Perlmutter)
Those negatives used to provide a "paper trail". Negatives were even used in the OJ Case to show a historical timeline that OJ owned such a pair of shoes.
They can do the same thing, except at much less cost. Fill high capacity flash/SD cards with digital images, archive them together with the story slug to a tape drive. Digital tape is a very stable medium for data storage unlike HDD, flash, CD-R/DVD-R, etc.
The cell network is connected back to the twisted pair network. If landlines fail, cell may go as well.
The out takes file was also responsible for finding the photo of Bill Clinton hugging Monica at some point.
Our archive system in 2003 was based on a jukebox cdrom machine. It would take up to a minute to access some images. The system was called Merlin and the only images stored on the system were those that had been used plus a couple of back up images of the same event. And of course it required active involvement of the photographer(s) to archive the pictures. With negs it was just a matter of throwing them all into an envelope and dropping that into a box from which the lab rat would be expected to file everything that night.
Landlines were a blessing after hurricane Rita hit us and we had no electricity for three weeks.
Real programmers used 8-inch floppies.
Reminds me of the old April 1 Byte magazine bit about pocket-sized floppies. It had a picture of a guy with an 8" pocket on the front of his shirt.
I actually still have an 8" machine. It worked last time I powered it up (about 5 years ago).
The DB25-type printer cables are going to be gone by 2010.
Pft. Newfangled stuff. I've still got a couple of the old Centronics cables in my cable bin. Never know when I'm going to need them.
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