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Kibo informs me that bob stated that:
wrote in : I did a university computer program in the early 1960s (a Fortran course) and prepared my program and data on punched cards. I suspect that the chances of finding a computer to run that program today With about a 5 minute download, I could compile any of the standard flavours of FORTRAN on this machine, for free. Yeah, but how are you going to read the punch cards? That'd depend a lot on how many I needed to read, & how often. If I just needed to do it once, & I'd build an optical reader from scratch, & feed the cards by hand, (or pay a student/unemployed-person to feed them for me). -- W . | ,. w , "Some people are alive only because \|/ \|/ it is illegal to kill them." Perna condita delenda est ---^----^--------------------------------------------------------------- |
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news Yeah, but how are you going to read the punch cards? That'd depend a lot on how many I needed to read, & how often. If I just needed to do it once, & I'd build an optical reader from scratch, & feed the cards by hand, (or pay a student/unemployed-person to feed them for me). Ach, you don't have to build a reader from scratch. Bulk-load a stacking scanner and use OMR and a little BASIC. |
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news Yeah, but how are you going to read the punch cards? That'd depend a lot on how many I needed to read, & how often. If I just needed to do it once, & I'd build an optical reader from scratch, & feed the cards by hand, (or pay a student/unemployed-person to feed them for me). Ach, you don't have to build a reader from scratch. Bulk-load a stacking scanner and use OMR and a little BASIC. |
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Drifter wrote:
for the sake of my comparison I consider modern photography to be a direct descendant of the first film negatives created by Henry Talbot in 1834. That gives photography a pedigree of at least 170 years. Even starting from the first Leica (1924) we have a photographic history of 80 years! By contrast, digital photography (using a sensor as opposed to a film negative) can, at best, claim a history of roughly 17 years with Kodak's first commercial sensor around 1987 At best? The first commercial sensor for digital photography was the CCD201ADC, from Fairchild, in 1973. By 1986, Kodak were a long way down the road with a 1.4 Mpixel sensor. Andrew. |
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Drifter wrote:
for the sake of my comparison I consider modern photography to be a direct descendant of the first film negatives created by Henry Talbot in 1834. That gives photography a pedigree of at least 170 years. Even starting from the first Leica (1924) we have a photographic history of 80 years! By contrast, digital photography (using a sensor as opposed to a film negative) can, at best, claim a history of roughly 17 years with Kodak's first commercial sensor around 1987 At best? The first commercial sensor for digital photography was the CCD201ADC, from Fairchild, in 1973. By 1986, Kodak were a long way down the road with a 1.4 Mpixel sensor. Andrew. |
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Kibo informs me that "jjs" stated that:
wrote in message news Yeah, but how are you going to read the punch cards? That'd depend a lot on how many I needed to read, & how often. If I just needed to do it once, & I'd build an optical reader from scratch, & feed the cards by hand, (or pay a student/unemployed-person to feed them for me). Ach, you don't have to build a reader from scratch. Bulk-load a stacking scanner and use OMR and a little BASIC. Ew. That'd be too much like trying to make a wheel out of bricks. I like even my kludges to /some/ degree of elegance. -- W . | ,. w , "Some people are alive only because \|/ \|/ it is illegal to kill them." Perna condita delenda est ---^----^--------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Kibo informs me that "jjs" stated that:
wrote in message news Yeah, but how are you going to read the punch cards? That'd depend a lot on how many I needed to read, & how often. If I just needed to do it once, & I'd build an optical reader from scratch, & feed the cards by hand, (or pay a student/unemployed-person to feed them for me). Ach, you don't have to build a reader from scratch. Bulk-load a stacking scanner and use OMR and a little BASIC. Ew. That'd be too much like trying to make a wheel out of bricks. I like even my kludges to /some/ degree of elegance. -- W . | ,. w , "Some people are alive only because \|/ \|/ it is illegal to kill them." Perna condita delenda est ---^----^--------------------------------------------------------------- |
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In message Ufe7d.42$ae7.12@trndny07,
"Gene Palmiter" wrote: Way back when I got my Oly E-10 I would hear people whisper "That's a digital camera!," others would freak when I showed them a photo on the viewer...they had no idea that digital existed. I think that is what people are refering to when they talk of when digital was new...the days before it was ubiquitous. I do agree though that we are where the PC was before the IBM-PC. There are no standards. I often find that when I am out with my 10D, that people automatically assume that it is a film camera. I had one guy back in the spring look at me using my 10D, and said, "it's good to see some people are still using film; this digital stuff everyone's going for today is just a bad joke". -- John P Sheehy |
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In message ,
Drifter wrote: On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 01:55:10 GMT, wrote: In message Ufe7d.42$ae7.12@trndny07, "Gene Palmiter" wrote: ---snip---- I often find that when I am out with my 10D, that people automatically assume that it is a film camera. I had one guy back in the spring look at me using my 10D, and said, "it's good to see some people are still using film; this digital stuff everyone's going for today is just a bad joke". I've had the same thing happen a couple of times, the look of shock on their faces when I tell them it IS digital is priceless. I am often at popular tourist spots in NYC, and people see me with my 10D and ask me to take a picture of them. My running joke is to lift my camera and take a picture of them, knowing full well that they meant with *their* camera. A couple of weeks ago, as a woman handed me her camera, she said, "sorry, but it's a digital". I then pressed the review button on mine and showed her the LCD, and she said, "I didn't see that big camera in Office Max!". -- John P Sheehy |
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