Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/09

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Subject: [Leica] Re: [LRflex] Digital Leica "M"
From: creativevisions at verizon.net (Michael J. Herring)
Date: Fri Dec 9 10:46:40 2005
References: <NEBBJDFBIKOBILIKPPBNIEDKDDAB.red735i@earthlink.net> <43990440.3020507@gmail.com>

Yes, Clive, VALVES always sounded better and they still do today....Just
like film.

Take care,
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clive Moss" <clive.moss@gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: [LRflex] Digital Leica "M"


> on 12/6/2005 8:55 PM Frank Filippone said the following:
> > Youngster....PDP-8.  Rocker switches for the BIOS, Punch tape for the
> > program.
> ...
> PDP-8 used dang modern transistors - useless. The IBM 704 had real
> valves - glowed in the dark, too. 36 bit words - none of these sissy
> 8-bit bytes. Valves sound better, film looks better.
> In 1962 it was the biggest computer in South Africa. All 8K words of it.
> --
> Clive
> Blog: http://www.clive.moss.net/blog/blog.html
>
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