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Subject: [Leica] Noctilux factoid of the day - computer history/nostalgia
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri Apr 25 23:22:15 2008

> Well, the old stuff had some uses.  Look at Edward Lorenz and the Lorenz
> attracters resulting from rounding off six-digit early computer output,
> while trying to make weather models.  Or Benford's law from just noting 
> that
> somehow the first pages of log tables were more used than the others.....
> 
> Ken
> (Who bought the first IBM PC hard drive shipped into our town --- 10
> megabytes, in a separate matching case with a separate power supply, for
> $2,500 then-dollars.  If that doesn't qualify for more recent old-fart
> status, I don't know what does.)
> 

I got one megabyte of extra memory for my Mac SE in '86 for 999 dollars.
Doubling the memory.
I still had to re start it with all the extensions off to use Photoshop.
Yep I was on the ground floor with Photoshop.




Mark William Rabiner
markrabiner.com



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