OK, as a relatively literate computer user since, ahem..., 1973, I must confess that I am not exactly certain how the blogosphere works. Going to give it a go.
I am an architectural photographer and have been doing this for 28 years. I want to share some work, some stories and maybe share a little something with others about some of the places I have been fortunate to visit. For now, consider this as merely a test post.
About that computer that I first got into in 1973 -
It was a Univac located on the Emory University campus in Atlanta. I was a student at Druid Hills High School and we had an acoustic coupled modem that we could use from our 'computer room'. I was in charge as the 'aide' for 4th period. Our interface was a printer. Yep. A printer. After messing with this thing for about 6 months and writing some BASIC programs I got my first glimpse of a monitor. It was like... how strange... a computer on a TV? We actually would play games on the printer.
I wrote a simple program in BASIC that was about 60 lines of code. One day it was gone. I inquired "Where did my program go?". The answer? They needed the disk space. The hard drives were the size of a Lincoln Continental spare tire and probably held just a few megabytes.
Those were interesting times.
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