Monday, January 6, 2025

Ancient History


It's too cold to go outside to shoot today!  Just kidding, I spent the day running around doing errands.  This is from our visit to LACMA.  This is an exhibit called "Digital Witness" about the revolution in design and photography and film, which of course I was part of in my work when we switched to first, scanning our negatives for some years, and then when we got our first digital cameras.


This was on display in a case.  It is the Macintosh 128K, the original Macintosh personal computer from Apple.  It is the first successful mass-market all-in-one desktop personal computer with a graphical user interface, built-in screen and mouse, from 1984.  I didn't get involved in computers until 1993 when I bought my first Mac Quadra 605.  But my buddy Chuck sent me one of these years later, which I still have, so I could experience computing in the early days.  Mine still runs!


And these are two Adobe applications that made publishing and digital photography possible.  I never used "Adobe Illustrator" at all, but my life depended on Photoshop.  I can't believe the huge size of these boxes!  I forget exactly, but I think these boxes are about 8" x 10" x 5" in size.  And inside, for Photoshop, there are maybe a dozen small floppy disks.  When Newsday upgraded to a newer version than 3.0 I got to bring home the 3.0 disks and put Photoshop on my computer at home. I was stunned at the size of the boxes.  Just a bit of ancient history to share with everyone.





 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Im sure you had a fun day reliving ancient history with computers and programs. Crazy how they have progressed. I remember when Paul worked for BF Goodrich, reel to reel computers were the size of big refrigerators. Small offices and homes used manual or maybe electric typewriters. Joan