A Piece of History in Action

[xpatUSA]

That said, I fear I would get short [shrift] if I said that on DPReview!

Not on my Forum you wouldn't, Trev.

A few us are still shooting 3.4MP (Sigma SD9) and I habitually shoot my DP2 Merrill in low-res raw 3.7MP, sharp as a tack.

[pschlute]

Good old Sir Clive - what a character ...

Lets not mention the C5 !

[Round Tuit]

... I actually bought an abacus and had it placed prominently at the front of my classroom when I was teaching computer systems and the story was often told to my students...

I still have an abacus Don't use it or the slide rule much these days except to show off the grand kids.

[Ken MT]

When the first electronic calculators came out here they were about $400NZ - they could + - * / do inverse, square and square root - and that was it really. I waited a while and got one of the early scientific ones that did trig functions, by then that level of functionality was about $500.

Ironically when our next generation of survey cadets came to us, they were used to doing it all on their calculators. If the batteries on their calculators died they wanted to pack up and go back, to which the response was "no way, that's too much wasted time". They were a bit crestfallen when we tossed them a book of 7-figure Trig and logarithmic tables and told them to keep working!

I love it!