Articles Tagged with old technology

Colors of the stars

Published on March 23, 2021March 22, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Poetic and precise

How do you describe a color?

The long hours

Published on March 16, 2021March 15, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Time of the season

Some hours used to be longer than others. Really.

The price of old things

Published on March 9, 2021March 8, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Market research

We ponder the economic future of the past.

The last hurrah of the silver plate

Published on February 23, 2021February 22, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Hunting oxymorons

We recall an example of cutting-edge research using obsolete means.

Morse code

Published on January 5, 2021January 3, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

High-speed digital communication

The telegraph required a new way of writing messages.

Color pictures

Published on December 8, 2020December 7, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Filters or sensors ?

We ponder a photographer’s desire for a monochrome camera.

Upgrading

Published on November 3, 2020November 3, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Out with the old

We make a suggestion that’s out of step with the times.

It used to be hard

Published on September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Now it’s easy

Are some things too easy to do nowadays?

Mixing subjects

Published on September 8, 2020September 7, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Crossing boundaries

We put forward an idea for a college class that will probably never happen.

Language technology

Published on June 2, 2020June 2, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Materials for learning

We notice that some things have gotten much easier with advances in technology.

Five Colors Science & Technology

Beyond the usual spectrum