Scott Beale shoots me (and I shoot him)

December 8, 2006 By

I met Scott Beale in the lobby here at the Bellevue Hyatt (we’re in room 1514) and he shot me interviewing Doug Rowan, former CEO of Corbis (he now invests in photographic-centric companies like ZoomAlbum and Piczo). Then I turned the camera on Scott. Hopefully we’ll do a photowalking while here in Bellevue.

Doug told us about selling computers back in the 1960s for IBM that had 600 bytes of memory that cost millions of dollars (no hard drives, either!) That’s not gigabytes. It’s not megabytes. It’s not kilobytes. It’s bytes. How far we’ve come in one lifetime is simply amazing.

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  • http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/ kevinclosson

    They had tape drive though 1600Bpi :-)

    Core memory baby!

  • http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/ kevinclosson

    They had tape drive though 1600Bpi :-)

    Core memory baby!

  • http://texturbation.com/blog/ Kevin Murphy

    Fascinating stuff Bob.

    Keep it coming.

  • http://texturbation.com/blog/ Kevin Murphy

    Fascinating stuff Bob.

    Keep it coming.

  • http://saffronmantra.wordpress.com/ saffronmantra

    yep its a long way from the olden days, isnt it? now even laptops for babies would have more than that.

  • http://saffronmantra.wordpress.com/ saffronmantra

    yep its a long way from the olden days, isnt it? now even laptops for babies would have more than that.

  • http://blog.chineseoutpost.com/ Mark Baker

    600 bytes? I think the little red lights that sparkle in my 3-year old’s Cinderella tennis shoes each has more than that. No tape drive with those, though. Not in the standard version, anyway.

  • http://blog.chineseoutpost.com Mark Baker

    600 bytes? I think the little red lights that sparkle in my 3-year old’s Cinderella tennis shoes each has more than that. No tape drive with those, though. Not in the standard version, anyway.

  • http://www.steve-lacey.com/ Steve

    If you do a photo walk, let me know – I’d love to tag along and bring the d200.

  • http://www.steve-lacey.com Steve

    If you do a photo walk, let me know – I’d love to tag along and bring the d200.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ Robert Scoble

    Steve: unfortunately doesn’t look like we’ll do a photowalking. Everyone is exhausted after the wedding.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ Robert Scoble

    Steve: unfortunately doesn’t look like we’ll do a photowalking. Everyone is exhausted after the wedding.

  • http://zadidiaz.com/blog Zadi

    So Steve Garfield tagged me, Jeff Pulver tagged him, and now I’m tagging you to tell us five things we don’t know about you… The world wants to know Robert. :)

    Z.

  • http://zadidiaz.com/blog Zadi

    So Steve Garfield tagged me, Jeff Pulver tagged him, and now I’m tagging you to tell us five things we don’t know about you… The world wants to know Robert. :)

    Z.