Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> 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