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Remember when people thought Apple was dead?

Friday, February 12, 2010

Vintage 1997: The Power Macintosh 5500 It’s amazing how much abuse Macintoshes used to take from people who thought that Microsoft should, and would, rule the world. I put up with this for virtually my entire career in newspaper publishing. But without, I hope, being too boastful, I think the entire world now sees what […]

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From the good old days…

Friday, February 12, 2010

My cherished Selectric III from the San Francisco Examiner If I had the space and the money, I could happily fill a warehouse with a collection of vintage technology. Typewriter technology, after steady development for at least 150 years, reached its apex in the 1970s with the IBM Correcting Selectric III. I own one of […]

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Over the river and through the woods

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Round trip — more than 100 miles I drove to Yadkin County today to visit family. It was good weather for photography, and the leaves were just beginning to turn, so I figured it was a good day to document the route from northern Stokes County, where I live, to the Yadkin Valley, where most […]

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Seems like just yesterday…

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Fred Flagler is in the far left foreground, June 1969. — Digital Forsyth, Frank Jones collection That’s me on the far left. I recognize almost everyone in this photo. That’s Arlene Edwards in the chair in the right foreground, and Wallace Carroll in the chair to Arlene’s left. — Digital Forsyth, Frank Jones collection. The […]

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Rolling back the clock on sweets

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

These will be ready to eat tomorrow. There are a couple of scenes in the BBC series Cranford, which is set in Cheshire around 1840, in which some children get very excited about the fact that their cherry tree has come into season. The children get a big thrill out of helping the new doctor […]

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Some old photos

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Gladys and me, Winston-Salem, circa 1989. Photo by Gavin. Gladys had a stroke soon after this and completely lost the use of her legs. She slowly recovered, but she limped and dragged one of her hind feet for the rest of her life. She was the crippled collie. Gavin and I both were with her […]

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