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.



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