[Leica] OT: Mac wannabees

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> There is always something which is a fashion for some, even if it is a 
> boon to
> others. When the walkman came out it was just the best thing that happened 
> for
> me. I was a music lover who travelled, my plane journeys were never as bad
> again!
> OTOH if you -like- gadgets there are a lot more genres now, when I was a
> student there was just an audio system. I remember a guy from a wealthy 
> family
> had a state of the art stereo in his room and 4 test records to keep it 
> tuned
> to perfection, he didn't much like music but he was interested in the
> technology. I got to play my records on it quite a bit!
> Nowadays he could be into games consoles DIY PCs, and so forth and probably
> find some technology which he liked for its function not just its 
> technology.
> I had an Agfa Silette at that time but could not afford much film... The 
> used
> Leica IIIf I got when I had a proper job cost 35% of my annual income when 
> I
> got it :-( foreign cameras were very pricy in the UK then.
> Frank
> 
> On 7 Dec, 2009, at 21:32, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
> 
>> About the time I was a junior at Columbia, it was all about the Walkman 
>> and
>> those flimsy little headphones.  We were still 5 years away from the 
>> Gordon
>> Gekko phone.  And before that, when I was a freshman, the popular form of
>> portable personal entertainment and fashion statement was carrying around 
>> one
>> of those Little Red Books.
>> 
>> -rei
>> 

I also was a Walkman nut.
I walked for miles on those things.
They made me walk.
Amazing how far you can get on one Mahler symphony.

Mark William Rabiner