Robert's Ramblings

21 years ago Intel finally lost the battle with AMD to single handedly control CPUs for the PC industry.

Introducing the Am386, the PC industry's first true alternative and the beginning of the true PC desktop performance battle.

This battle now 21 years on has swayed back and forth from Intel to AMD and back again. Eventually the diversity of offerings became so confusing that the battle changed from performance to brand recognition. Remember Intel's 'Intel Inside' campaign!

I've kept this 20 year old AMD Am386DXL-40 (modern PC CPUs now run 100-1000 times faster ) to photograph, to remember and to be grateful of a legacy where I now process my images with a modern multi-core AMD CPU very, very quickly to make my life as a digital photographer extraordinary.


Photo: Robert Rath, '366 Days of 2012, Day 232 - AMD Gold'. 1/100s f/16 ISO160 100mm

Every time I drive under this bridge I panic!

It's an underpass and you really need to watch your speed as there is a speed camera on the far exit.
No chance of that this time as I have safely parked some distance away and am enjoying the view as a pedestrian.

One problem I faced taking this image was getting the camera into a suitable position. Simply setting up the tripod on the footpath resulted in too much railing in the scene. In the end I preset the camera to take the shots I needed and then lashed the legs of the tripod to the handrail.


Photo: Robert Rath, '366 Days of 2012, Day 231 - Underlined'. 1.6-6-25s f/8.0 ISO320 15mm hdr