“Eat cake and drink coffee!”

Another John Larkin induced mac meetup. Started with dinner at the usual hangout at Blk 40 and I took over the reins of making the orders in Alvin's absence.

Topics covered in random order during the meetup:

-Prisms (from a Physics open house)

-iOS5 (text expansion; instant camera; iMessage)

-Attention span - John realised that his attention span was getting shorter lately with urges to crack jokes during class when the students are quietly working on their stuff. A result of the use of smart phones and tablets with information at your fingertips and over stimulation of the brain with apps? Perhaps.

-Dropbox - How no one carries a thumbdrive anymore. But being the geeks we all are, we carry storage devices in one form or many others as demonstrated in the photos.

Stemming from the storage device mini showdown, “Legacy meetup” would be the theme for the next meet. The rule is to bring the oldest gadget you own and it only counts if you can show that it still works.

So what do we expect to see? The following were promised:

-First thumbdrive by Trek

-Walkman (the one using cassette)

-5 ¼ “floppy disk with portable USB drive

-3 ½ “ floppy disk and portable drive

-Iomega zip disks and portable drive

-Some hole punch card thing Siva says he has

-Apple 2 machine

-Apple Newton

To be inline with the legacy theme, the whole meetup would be shot with a 2mp digital camera (ya, the "vintage" Sony cybershot and it still works! I win!)


Pictures from the meetup from my camera and Kenneth's flickr:











































































































































Mini Storage Device showdown.