On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected] > wrote:
> > On Jun 14, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > > > > Give 'em a 7 MHz processor and 1 MB RAM and see what they can do ! > > > > And no I am not kidding. > > > Uphill both ways, I presume, barefoot in the snow? 8-P > With loose RAM slots and a dirty tape drive ! > > > > > My first layered composite image process was done on a machine of that > spec. > > Later I had 16 MHz and 16 MB RAM. That machine sits on the floor about 2 > > feet from where I am now. > > RAM?? you had RAM? Luuuxury. > Yep, the early 90s saw a lot of folks unloading their super expensive used equipment to buy those Oh so reliable PCs! > > Why we had to scratch the bits onto pieces of paper we peeled up from the > floor of the butchers shop and wrote on with our own blood! Three graphics > artists would die every time we did a layer mask! > > > But it beat getting the pottery wheel to keep a steady rpm while you held the twig to the clay trying to read the pottery grooves for data. -- Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer [email protected] http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/ http://www.youtube.com/fluxstringer http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer http://www.linkedin.com /in/fluxstreamcommunications http://flux-influx.blogspot.com/ http://fluxdreams.designbinder.com/ -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
