Artist / hacker from Providence, USA.

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I do a lot of photography for a museum. In documenting historic artifacts (as in journalism) you’re not supposed to do any post processing. Not that I’d use a phone camera for those photos, but it’s an issue as those features creep into more serious cameras.


TCP/IP was… part of the BSD project? PDP-11 or VAX?

Our museum mostly collects minis from science & academia, so it leans REALLY heavily DEC.

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As a hobby. I set up a tek-4015 running geometric fractals (trees, snowflakes, etc.) in an art gallery type installation once, about 20 years ago.


Weird. I’ve programmed tek vector graphics terminals, and I’d never heard about this before today.

Actually, what’s really cool is the giant vector displays a few companies made in the 60s:

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I remember the first time I heard about the web. My exact response was: “That sounds like a waste of bandwidth.”

Ha ha. Oops.

(In the early 90s I was completely obsessed with usenet. The graphical nature of web pages seemed like a terrible idea to me.)