Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Frank writes: > >> Do you know what electronics were like 45 years >> ago? > > If you mean solid-state electronics, they were like digital cameras today: > Volatile (i.e., obsolete in a month), unreliable, expensive, inferior to more > conventional technologies, and appealing strongly only to the equipment geeks. > > Forty-five years from now, we'll probably all be shooting digital, but it won't > be tomorrow. > > Forty-five years from now (or sooner) I will be completeing my third circumavigation on my sailboat. ;) sl