Weekly Photo Challenge No. 5 -Technology (Old or New)

[cats4jan]

Jun 9, 2015 16:40:37 GMT @colinofskye said:

Maybe a little too much Photoshop but it addresses the old and new

Wow - still don't have a handle on 'quoting' - but anyway, Colin - I love the story it tells - not too much "Photoshop" for me

[cats4jan]

Bayla - I think there's just a little OCD in my life ... 

[Bayla]

Jun 9, 2015 22:26:18 GMT cats4jan said:

Bayla - I think there's just a little OCD in my life ... 

What's the opposite of OCD? That's me, very organised but extremely messy. And married to a fellow sufferer doesn't help! You should see HIS desk which is next to mine. My stuff is only a few papers high. His measures about a foot!

Anyway, loved your LO but won't be doing a similar one of my own in the near future!

Bayla

[cats4jan]

Bayla - actually my house looks like no one lives here. I think this last move put me over the edge. I got rid of mostly everything and have few "things" sitting around - unless they serve a purpose.

Oh well - hijacked this thread long enough -

Looking forward to seeing everyone's submission under this new challenge. Love to see how varied the interpretations are.

[Stezza]

I went digging through the kitchen cupboard to find this bit of technology lol

[Deleted]

Thanks for the comments.  I confess that this is an old composite that I made a while back.

The B&W Photo is a scan of my mother and fathers wedding.  I used Photoshop to 'bend it' to get the correct appearance as it came out of the typewriter.  Then positioned it onto the typewriter and used Layer Masks to make it fit 'into' the machine by erasing certain parts.

The camera is a Kershaw Eight-20 King Penguin that I picked up some where along the line. I've never used it but I like old technology.  I'm pretty sure the typewriter was a stock image from somewhere.

If you feel like reading on I'll tell you the story about what prompted this.

Back in the late '60s I was working on the thermal properties of semi-conductor devices and for a paper we were presenting needed to produce a thermal map of the surface temperatures.  Output devices were pretty limited in those days but I came up with the idea of using a line printer and over printing alpha-numeric characters to get different densities of print and hence a gray-scale.  So for example you could overprint a combination of things like 'space' ' ! 0 8 X # etc.  From a distance these appeared as a gray scale.

So in today's digital speak each pixel was approx 0.1" x0.1" and there were about 10 pixels per inch.

The program was written in Fortran and was batch processed over night - no desktop machines in those days - so I had to wait for the following day to get the results. Each page of the map was built up from a combination of approx 87,000 characters overprinted.  One day I got the format statement wrong and it printed one character per sheet.  They delivered several boxes of paper to me equating to about 80,000 sheets of paper.  The trees have never forgiven me.

Colin

[cats4jan]

Colin - that is an interesting story. In the early days of Word Perfect and my IBM with it's Okidata printer, I started a print job of 30 copies and left. I came back to jammed paper where the printer kept printing right through the paper and since the technology was very similar to a typewriter, the platen was almost ruined from the fact that all 30 pages were printed on the platen instead of the paper. Needless to say, I never left a print job again.

As a ex-secretary, I was in awe of Word Perfect. No more carbon paper! No more erasing!


 thanks for the info on how you created your project.  

[Madame]

That's impressive, Jan.
I think it began in -88 with a used Commodore 64 to my girls... cassette player for the programmes ..haha.

EDIT:
oops.. I didn't see that the conversation had continued.

[cats4jan]

Marianne - 1982 -started with dual drives where I needed to load DOS, then I needed to load the software - used the second drive for saving my files. But still - what an advancement over even an electric typewriter. Only problem I had was figuring out that when I entered a command, it was there forever until I removed it. Quite a learning curve. Kinda like learning PSE.

[Deleted]

As a ex-secretary, I was in awe of Word Perfect. No more carbon paper! No more erasing!

Yeah, but cleaning the 'white-out', 'snowpake' or 'tippex' off of the screen was a nightmare.

Colin

[cats4jan]

Jun 10, 2015 12:45:11 GMT @colinofskye said:

Yeah, but cleaning the 'white-out', 'snowpake' or 'tippex' off of the screen was a nightmare

Did you know that Liquid Paper was developed by Michael Nesmith's mom? 




Old layout created for a challenge called "what's in your desk drawer"

[dennis9]

We have just returned from a four-day break in Norfolk.  Here are two examples of the resort's use of technology for the entertainment of guests.

[dennis9]

Walking in the Norfolk countryside, I found some modern technology in a rural setting.

These wind turbines were doing their work in the midst a field of barley - an incongruous partnership!

Brenda

[Squirrel2014]

Yep, East Anglia is quite good at new technology

He! He!  He!  Sorry, couldn't resist it  

I trust you enjoyed your time in Norfolk.  The countryside is very interesting, of course.  I'm in Suffolk and just love all around East Anglia.  Wind turbines aren't that popular around but, being relatively flat, this part of the country is ideal except that they are quite visible for a long way off - so people still moan 'not on our doorstep'.  Just like everywhere / everything else.   

[Sepiana]

Jun 8, 2015 8:40:10 GMT Bayla said:

Here is the downside to modern technology - we have at least one box filled with old cables, wires, keyboards, hard drives, plugs, adaptors etc., which nobody wants to chuck out (just in case!!) but which is taking up room we could use for other things!

Bayla

Bayla,

I just love your interpretation of this theme. It is quite a smorgasbord of old and new technology.