[Leica] Memories of Technologies Past

[j2m46 at hotmail.fr (Jean-Michel Mertz)]

Best wishes for your retirement, Richard, and thanks for this piece of 
philosophy. I've read your comment with great interest. Maybe this cable is 
a metaphor for life and the way we perceive it?Jean-Michel
 > From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net
> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:21:53 -0400
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] Memories of Technologies Past
> 
> When I moved into my office, it must have been twenty-five years ago now, 
> this cable was hanging from the ceiling.   I think it was a cable to a 
> VT-100 terminal, part of a technology all ready on the way out.
> 
> It was still there last week when I moved out of the office (I've 
> retired--finally), despite multiple installations of succeeding 
> generations of networking cables.  It was unused, uncommented upon, and 
> forgotten all those years.  
> 
> I came to think of it as an "installation," like you would see in an art 
> museum, a monument to old technology.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/misc/DSCF0242_DNG.jpg.html
> 
> I will miss it.
> 
> Shot with my Leica-ish X Pro-1 & 18 mm lens.  
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Dick
> 
> 
> 
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