Pix of the classics (was Re: digital cameras)

From: Bill Yakowenko <yakowenk_at_cs.unc.edu>
Date: Sun Jul 18 18:53:06 1999

Well, as long as I'm replying to classiccmp e-mail, I may as well
get my two cents in on this thread.

It sounds to me like Tony has higher expectations than most of us.
Although I'd love to find a web site with _all_ the technical
details for a favorite system, it doesn't even happen in my daydreams.
To few people are in a position to put in the amount of effort,
time, and money to create that kind of thing. That may be changing
as disk space gets cheaper, higher resolution cameras and scanners
get cheaper, and our minutes of spare time add up to become whole
hours.

In the meantime, I still get some nostalgic jollies from seeing
low-res snaps of old machinery. That is not totally useless, even
if it is not yet enough to help me repair one. Heck, it could even
be useful in a technical way, as an aid to the identification of
those machines for people who have never seen one.

Then too, I've seen web sites in which all text was encoded as
images, with no "alt" tags. So there are certainly useless images
out there, by nearly anyone's standards.

        Bill.
Received on Sun Jul 18 1999 - 18:53:06 BST