The original Kodak moment: Snapshots taken from the camera that changed photography in 1888

The Daily Mail ^ | 10-1-13 | Jill Reilly

[Dr. Sivana]

Faulting Kodak for not getting into the digital CAMERA business is like faulting Ford for not making boats and airplanes.

They made some serious $100,000 copiers back in the '80s. Apple is an all-in-one solution, Kodak might have been as well.

[llevrok]

it was a case of arrogance.

Kodak felt THEY owned all there was to know about imaging technology and did not respect that others outside of Kodak might have a good idea. (And up until the early 60’s, they were right)

[morphing libertarian]

What goes around comes around.

IIRC xerox turned down the PARC system developed by their Palo Alto division, local area network, WYSIWYG interface, point and click mouse. Guy named Jobs toured PARC and developed the MacIntosh.

Reportedly, the board told Palo Alto, we’re a copy machine company not a computer company.

[rochester_veteran]

Just how much of their time did upper class women spend dressing. Were they, and the men, trying to make themselves uncomfortable. Hot weather must have been difficult.

A lot of the clothes were made out of wool. Couldn't imagine having to wear wool clothes in Summer, before air conditioning was invented and before fans as well. Shorts were only acceptable for young boys. I'm glad I live in the age that I do, I have never longed for living in the past.

[Ignatz]

Bkmk

[Buckeye McFrog]

That woman in the rowboat looks like she has her waist corseted down to about 18 inches. Can’t understand how she could draw a breath, let alone engage in such strenuous activity.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“Apparently, people were a lot thinner back then”

Before fast food.

[rochester_veteran]

They made some serious $100,000 copiers back in the '80s. Apple is an all-in-one solution, Kodak might have been as well.

Laser printers too. I worked in computer operations back in the 80's and initially we had a Xerox 9700 (it was a beast!) and then upgraded to the Kodak commercial laser printer. It would print duplex on both sides of the paper at the same time. We also had a Kodak Comstar mircrofiche/microfilm system.

[rochester_veteran]

That woman in the rowboat looks like she has her waist corseted down to about 18 inches. Can’t understand how she could draw a breath, let alone engage in such strenuous activity.

Yes, I noticed that. The fainting issues women had back then were attributed to corsets being too tight.

[Dr. Sivana]

The Xerox 9700! That WAS a beast! I remember hours typesetting XSET on that thing. Vanilla HTML code was reminiscent of XSET. A beautiful beast.

[AFreeBird]

Actually, Ford did make planes. Ever hear of the Ford Trimotor? And they did build ships for the Navy in WWI.

Your analogy would be better if you said Ford while ‘inventing’ the automobile didn’t go on to build cars. Which is basically what Kodak did, or failed to do, with digital photography.

[Orangedog]

Lots of stuff we take for granted today was created at PARC. Jobs more or less “appropriated” the GUI from the Alto systems that had become standard issue at PARC by the time he first went there. When he couldn’t get everything he wanted he started poaching the engineers who designed the tech in the Alto to work on the Lisa and, later, the Macintosh. He might have seen the commercial potential, but he didn’t invent it like so many would have us believe.

[rochester_veteran]

The Xerox 9700! That WAS a beast! I remember hours typesetting XSET on that thing. Vanilla HTML code was reminiscent of XSET. A beautiful beast.

It would print 120 pages per minute! It was about 9 feet long and the one I worked with had the 9 track tape drive and the terminal and provided printing for our MVS and CMS mainframes. We also had IBM impact printers, trimmers, bursters and collators.

[Dr. Sivana]

Did you ever work with its little brother, the 2700? Not a beast, but awfully peppy for 1983.

[married21]

Thanks for sharing this. It was interesting.

[zeugma]

BFL

[hobbes1]

Fast food,processed flour, and sugar subsidies.

Basically people were on the Atkins diet, and just didn’t know it uet.

[Adder]

Dang it!

Linda Eastman ruined the Beatles!

:]

[HomeAtLast]

If they could see us today they’d think we look like a bunch of slobs.

Yeah but cleaner, more comfy, and with better teeth and nicer legs!

[rochester_veteran]

Yes I did work with the 2700. I took a job a another ops site in the 90’s and we had two 2700’s.