Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, Clive, VALVES always sounded better and they still do today....Just like film. Take care, Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clive Moss" <clive.moss@gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:12 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: [LRflex] Digital Leica "M" > on 12/6/2005 8:55 PM Frank Filippone said the following: > > Youngster....PDP-8. Rocker switches for the BIOS, Punch tape for the > > program. > ... > PDP-8 used dang modern transistors - useless. The IBM 704 had real > valves - glowed in the dark, too. 36 bit words - none of these sissy > 8-bit bytes. Valves sound better, film looks better. > In 1962 it was the biggest computer in South Africa. All 8K words of it. > -- > Clive > Blog: http://www.clive.moss.net/blog/blog.html > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >