Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I currently use handbuilt analog tubed audio components... sometimes the old technology based stuff just works better! (a familiar concept here in Leicaville). Jack McLain Tucson, AZ - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Lehrer" <jerryleh@pacbell.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] My kind of digital M camera - Ye Olde Time Macs > Jack > > How 'bout portable radios with vacuum tubes, leather football helmets, > 78 rpm records, plate film, and cars with no fins (yet)! > > Jerry > > Jack McLain wrote: > > > also AM portable radios , football helmets without face shields, 45rpm > > records, roll film, and cars with fins > > Jack McLain > > Tucson, AZ > > http://jackmclain-photography.dotcommunity.net > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <grduprey@rockwellcollins.com> > > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:01 AM > > Subject: Re: [Leica] My kind of digital M camera - Ye Olde Time Macs > > > > > > > > Yup! Shore Do. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Seth Rosner > > > <sethrosner@direcway.com> To: > > leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > > Sent by: cc: > > > owner-leica-users@mejac.palo Subject: Re: > > [Leica] My kind of digital M camera - Ye Olde Time Macs > > > -alto.ca.us > > > > > > > > > 08/20/2003 11:08 AM > > > Please respond to > > > leica-users > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You guys are killing me. Does anyone remember mimeograph machines? Blue > > > fingers? Telephones with rotary dials? Transcontinental passenger trains? > > > Electric light bulbs? Horse as a mode of transport? ;-) luv it. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Robert VanLane" <robert@actv.ne.jp> > > > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > > > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:21 AM > > > Subject: Re: [Leica] My kind of digital M camera - Ye Olde Time Macs > > > > > > > > > > I remember getting the releases on the Telex (wow , those machines were > > > > loud). I also remember setting type by hand and using the wax to layout > > > the > > > > columns. > > > > But it certainly doesn't feel like a long time ago though. > > > > I think my CL was new and hadn't been dropped in the lake yet. > > > > My 2 M3's were already abused as they were off-duty from the news room. > > > > > > > > > > > > Robert VanLane > > > > > > > > > > I used one of those to connect to the internet for the first time. I > > > > > > seem to remember it took me two or three days to install the > > software > > > > > > and make my first connection (using Telnet)... eventually managed to > > > > > > connect to the Library of Congress... I was astounded. I called > > > > > > everyone in the office over to look. It was as if we had contacted > > > Mars. > > > > > > > > > > > > That was less than 10 years ago. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ...that is funny, because it was only about 10 years ago that I was > > > > getting > > > > > used to receiving press releases via the FAX machine. Now 90% of my > > > press > > > > > releases come via the internet. > > > > > > > > > > sl > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > To unsubscribe, see > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html