And you could have sold it to one of the many folks keeping old PDP-11's alive these days.
They really were art. They were hand-stitched and really cool looking objects. On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Gonz <rgonzoma...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. -- -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.
