A very sad day for me

[CRhymer]

Yes Ron, but in spite of it being "just a joke", it is very funny.

Cheers,
Clarence

 

[edz]

Hi Photo Engineer !
I feel your pain. I work in IT business and the graveyard is full of young deads... 5 years is an eternity in this business.

I don't think so. IT as other technical fields is about dreaming not today's dream but light years ahead. So we talked and developed testbeds, for example, in the early 1970s on packet radio computer networks (and even the computers had plasma displays), worked on distributed computing clusters as early as 1972 (that was my idea as a teenager in ARPAland).. tinkered with speech recognition (The TX-2 at Lincoln Laboratory in the 1960s and early 1970s was not just the birth place of the ARPAnet, interactive computer graphics but also did a lot of work on speech). Distributed hypertext? That too goes back to the 1970s (if not the 1960s) and real systems developed in the 1980s were more advanced than much of the stuff that people are still waiting to see from the the mainstream.. Multi-core multi processor computers? 1960s. Fast I/O on computers use crossbar switches.. a model that AT&T deployed in the 1950s for fast electro-mechanical telephone switches. The real problem in IT is that too many people think the world was created when they first had a look at it.. Development is mainly tinkering and perfection.
I recall visiting the library at UCLA about 15 years ago and saw in the library the old Honeywell IMP. It brought memories but good ones and a warm feeling that some of the dreams and visions of my childhood did make sense! The key, I think, is to never stop dreaming! 5 years is an eternity only for a 4 year old....

Same with photography.. Perfection continues but the state of the art already by the 1930s was significant. But there is still a lot for the right mind to dream about... Nothing is ever obsolete only the concept "obsolete".

 

[GeorgesGiralt]

Edward, you're right !
The Apollo computer I used in the late 80's are still the future of networking in computer science...
And at that time when I spoke about them to colleagues on another IT company, they thought I was dreaming and that it was "just not possible".....
Ah ! If they had had the computing power of today's chips !

 

[Photo Engineer]

"Dave, Dave, something is wrong. I can feel it".

"HAL, you are digital, thats your problem."
"What you need to do is talk this over with SAL. She is a newer model"



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