Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Best wishes for your retirement, Richard, and thanks for this piece of philosophy. I've read your comment with great interest. Maybe this cable is a metaphor for life and the way we perceive it?Jean-Michel > From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net > Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:21:53 -0400 > To: lug at leica-users.org > Subject: [Leica] Memories of Technologies Past > > When I moved into my office, it must have been twenty-five years ago now, > this cable was hanging from the ceiling. I think it was a cable to a > VT-100 terminal, part of a technology all ready on the way out. > > It was still there last week when I moved out of the office (I've > retired--finally), despite multiple installations of succeeding > generations of networking cables. It was unused, uncommented upon, and > forgotten all those years. > > I came to think of it as an "installation," like you would see in an art > museum, a monument to old technology. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/misc/DSCF0242_DNG.jpg.html > > I will miss it. > > Shot with my Leica-ish X Pro-1 & 18 mm lens. > > Regards, > > Dick > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information