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4Lmike

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1,910 posts

199 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2011
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I was just searching the web for how to do something related to website building and came across this paragraph...

...Before we get into the how's and why's of this method, I wanted to let you know that the images on this page were taken using my new digital camera. It's really an amazing item. It holds a 3.5 inch floppy disc right in the body of the camera itself. When you snap a picture, it writes it to the disc in JPEG format so you can go right to the Net. Not only that, but you can also view the images as soon as you take them. That way you can quickly tell if someone blinked her or his eyes or not. If it's a bad shot, erase it and take another one. Smooth, but a little steep. Mine was just over $500. (My wife gasped as I handed over the credit card.) There are cheaper ones, but not with the disc right on board. I still think it was a good buy. Now...


Well it made me chuckle anyway. Thinking about it I should probably look for a newer post!

cottonfoo

6,050 posts

239 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2011
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Even as recent as 2003 the datacentre my then-employer's kit was in had a Sony Mavica to take photos of racks, people weren't allowed cameras inside for obvious reasons. Eventually they got a bit bored of me always asking them to take photos of servers I'd installed and just let me use my old Ixus smile