Death of the Telegraph: World's last telegram will be sent on July 14th

[mongers]

Asshole.

  he tossed all that stuff out. Probably be worth a bit now.

Certainly some of the prime lenses are in demand for use on DSLR.

I still regret selling a pre-war leica primary, would make some lovely images nowadays assuming there's a digital camera that could take it (I assume leica make an appropriate rangefinder style body, but that must be mucho bucks)

[Duque de Bragança]

Excuse me, but I have to rack my 35mm camera with a roll of film.   Bet you don't even remember what the fuck that is anymore.

35 mm?  Stolen from a cinematheque or a studio or what? Too high maintenance.
More likely, Super 8. At most, Hi8.

[ulmont]

I'm amazed there were any telegraphs left, even in a country like India.

I like how you waited until the story had already been debunked to post it.

[N]ews of the death of the telegram has been greatly exaggerated. "Somehow they got the impression that this meant the end of telegrams worldwide," Colin Stone, Director of Operations for International Telegram, a telegraphy service based in Canada, said in a phone conversation with Ars. "We'll still offer services in India, even though the state-run service is closing."

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/06/telegram-not-dead-stop/

[fhdz]

Maybe I should move to India and become a telegraph operator.

[Jacob]

Excuse me, but I have to rack my 35mm camera with a roll of film.   Bet you don't even remember what the fuck that is anymore.

35 mm?  Stolen from a cinematheque or a studio or what? Too high maintenance.
More likely, Super 8. At most, Hi8.

Psst...

This:


Not this:

[Admiral Yi]

Maybe I should move to India and become a telegraph operator.

You have a nose for growth industries.

[fhdz]

Maybe I should move to India and become a telegraph operator.

You have a nose for growth industries.