tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post3333494395061981459..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Ephemera...Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-60761480297532452972013-07-14T14:51:37.516-04:002013-07-14T14:51:37.516-04:00Local high school photo class students were using ...Local high school photo class students were using Nikon F-1s. When asked they said "We pull what ever we want out of the box."<br />"The Box" is full of donated cameras. Stuff I never could have afforded when new.Stretchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-7595409914498954852013-07-14T13:22:38.948-04:002013-07-14T13:22:38.948-04:00So, Mike, do you want to borrow my 28S or 48Gx?
H...<i>So, Mike, do you want to borrow my 28S or 48Gx?</i><br /><br />Heh. Thanks, Buzz, but I was a knuckle-dragging owner of a Sharp (or Casio, I forget) calculator using infix notation. RPN slows me down because my brain is too small.Mike_Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-81707744221179049102013-07-14T10:04:11.258-04:002013-07-14T10:04:11.258-04:00$3 iPAC? Why not?$3 iPAC? Why not?J.R.Shirleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08498164179579546593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-6639924997092794472013-07-14T07:16:33.604-04:002013-07-14T07:16:33.604-04:00Sorry I missed y'all.Sorry I missed y'all.Fuzzy Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03802539927743643041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-3254123509026828012013-07-13T23:33:49.787-04:002013-07-13T23:33:49.787-04:00So, Mike, do you want to borrow my 28S or 48Gx?So, Mike, do you want to borrow my 28S or 48Gx?Buzznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-35260394768082162322013-07-13T23:18:14.007-04:002013-07-13T23:18:14.007-04:00iPAQ, I got one for Christmas 2001.
It was the fi...iPAQ, I got one for Christmas 2001.<br /><br />It was the first time my wife had managed to get me a relatively expensive present without me knowing about it.<br /><br />I had been making "I wants it" noises for months and knowing our budget was resigned to not getting one any time soon.<br /><br />I was very surprised and pleased.<br /><br />I eventually replaced it with a first gen Windows phone (Samsung Blackjack) which paved the way to the Nokia Lumia 900 from which I do about 90% of my reading of and commenting on VFTP.Scott Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-50051337668872466412013-07-13T22:51:40.403-04:002013-07-13T22:51:40.403-04:00As someone who once gave real money for a Canon AE...<i>As someone who once gave real money for a Canon AE-1 Program</i><br /><br />Heck, a few weeks ago I paid real money (not all that much, but still) for a black Canon FTbN. It will live next to the chrome FTb (non-N) and the other FD-mount gear. Never did cotton to the T50 or T70, but the T90 feels good in the hand and is a fine shooter. Even if the slopey-prism Coliani design is butt-ugly. <br /><br />So did you buy an IPAQ for the hell of it? Though for true nerd cred you have to have one of those tiny HP programmables the name of which I forget (200LX?).<br /><br />I remember the exact moment I realized I did not have the right attitude for proper nerdhood. I walked in on an excited conversation between a bunch of MIT undergrads on how you could send in your HP calculator* to get it overclocked. All present were very excited. I asked how many of them had <i>programmable</i> calculators. None. Seeing as the devices already give you answers as fast as you can type, why on earth would you want it overclocked for $80 (back when that was real money), I asked. Universal looks of disdain.<br /><br />*HP calculators were <i>de rigeur</i>. Only idiots would use standard notation (like 3 x 4 = ?). Real people used calculators with reverse Polish notation (3, enter; 4 enter; x) "because the stack!"Mike_Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-26626459796287008822013-07-13T22:35:41.741-04:002013-07-13T22:35:41.741-04:00I have GOT to go to one of those.
I have GOT to go to one of those.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15353148533326986159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-66176687954486378582013-07-13T22:19:59.682-04:002013-07-13T22:19:59.682-04:00Bug her to post about it on the Retrotechnologist ...Bug her to post about it on the Retrotechnologist blog.drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.com