Not showing my age or anything, but as a kid a Kodak Carousel 600 was what we meant by 'multimedia' tech ... am I alone? Except the word multimedia didn't exist 'back in the day' of course, so this was the equivalent of VR goggles
It was designed to be brought out for Xmas and holidays, and to torture the neighbours with holiday snaps
Monty Python "Four Yorkshiremen" mode /on/
MP: But you try and tell the young people today that, and they won't believe ya'.
ALL: Nope, nope /off/
Bit worried it's (now) listed in "The Internet Antique Shop - TIAS" ... like what does that make me then? 😂
Well an over-estronated & renovated trans witch I guess ... 🤣
@Natasha_Jay
Back in the 80s and 90s there were a group of Australian SF fans that ran a small company Transfinite Audiovisual. The produced a few multimedia shows for SF conventions using 6 or 8 Carousel projectors and a bank of Clearlight sequencers. Very high tech for the time.
@Natasha_Jay my grandparents tortured us with holiday snaps using this. The most memorable showing was when they got the pictures from Egypt mixed together with Las Vegas, I swear this is true
@Almandine Pre PowerPoint, I well remember giving 3-4 weeks of IT training courses as a youngster using plastic transparencies ... would have been the early-mid 90s!
@Natasha_Jay
By the time I was giving presentation, we'd actually moved onto PP. I don't think I've ever used an OHP in anger, but I certainly remember them.
@Almandine Kind of. I guess my "IT" area of ERP is more a combo of a business knowledge domain and application functionality. I saw it go from char-mode (early 90s) on a VT220 terminal to heavy client-server (1997) to slim client-server and Citrix (early 00s) to web-applet (2010) and recently into the Cloud
Will I go back? Dunno, focussed on my own changes for a bit
But yeah back in the 90s I could install the DB and App on a Unix clone personally, customise it on demand, and run business training. Zero OO stuff, all logic was built in at an application level, zero middleware, the DB was a pure data repositary
My, errm, personal changes, were completed in the early '90s so I've been able to take my life forward from there, settle down with my partner, and follow my interests work-wise. I reckon I'm in a very privileged position, really!!
@Natasha_Jay There's thing that age badly, and then there's things that age well. No, not like wine, that turns to vinegar. Whisky. That stuff needs decades.
@Natasha_Jay Is that wine lingo? I wouldn't know. I grew up in a wine region, but I never developed a taste, and don't know why anyone would want to do that to perfectly good grape juice. Needs more work.
@thatfrisiangirlish Let us exchange knowledge when we meet then lol - you bring the whisky, I'll bring something decent and red (it was a phase, okay?)
Last time I drank whisky was with a Korean in the late 1990s (a bottle over a meal, omg) and I'm still recovering from the memory in the 2020s ... do not go glass-for-glass with Koreans!
@Natasha_Jay I've got to warn you, my tastes tend to be rough. Smoky and peaty, like Talisker. I could bring some Bärenfang to sweeten the deal inbetween. That's going to be a short evening, though, because that packs an unreasonable punch.
@thatfrisiangirlish
Lesson 1 - don't mix drinks, and I'm okay
Lesson 2 - don't drink glass-for-glass with Koreans per their drinking etiquette, they'll kill you
My only saving grace is the one night I tried that on Soju, even if it did nearly kill me, I staggered to the taxi whereas the older American I was with, slumped over the table and was (literally) carried by three to his taxi! 😂
@eliza Yes!! 😂 ... and ofc the kids had the (incedibly tedious ) job of putting the slides into it ...! Like 1970s Instagram, but without the bonkers filters tbh
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