Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > Sonny Carter wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >> wrote: >> >> >>> The Starbucks in the Columbia University area are dominated by Macs. >>> >>> >> >> Probably even more by iPhone users. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information