Haha, when they dismantled a PDP-11 with 8K core at school, I was thinking: hmm I should take this core memory and keep it as a memento, but alas, I did not. Now I wish I had. It was art.
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I find it's a Really Bad Idea to keep these vintage computing > anecdotes in mind, though. All that does is hamper you when you are > deciding how to accomplish many computing tasks. If you keep on > thinking that 400 megabytes is enormous, you will miss opportunities > like stacking multiple images. > > I remember how much getting a second 4K core plane (12 bit words!) did > for my PDP-8/e assembler programs. :) > > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Gonz <rgonzoma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In the 80's, a company I worked for had the big room with raised >> floors for all the computing equipment. One day, after we had been >> chronically short on disk space, a huge box came in. It was a washing >> machine sized disk drive from Fujitsu, that came with the whopping >> capacity of 400Mbytes. We were overjoyed. >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Mark C <pdml-m...@charter.net> wrote: >>> On 2/23/2017 6:33 PM, Bill wrote: >>>> >>>> I've been doing a lot of focus stacked macros with pixel shift. The level >>>> of detail goes up quite a bit, and blown out reds seem to be a thing of the >>>> past as well. >>>> The only downside is that a couple of dozen K1 pixel shift files stacked >>>> up in Photoshop take all 32 GB of memory and then some, so unless you have >>>> a >>>> smokin' hot box, you may find yourself wanting to upgrade. >>>> I don't miss my 6x7 any more. >>>> >>>> bill >>> >>> >>> I did the upgrade to 32 gb / 8 cores / SSD last year, so I should be >>> prepared. I use Zerene Stacker for larger stacks and it is more efficient >>> with memory than is PS, though I usually combine multiple ZS stacks in PS. >>> I'm sure things will feel a bit more sluggish working with K-1 files, but >>> 6x7 scans weigh in at 560 megs so they can be demanding as well. >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> >> -- >> -- Reduce your Government Footprint >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -- Reduce your Government Footprint -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
