I've carried my camera in and out of the building several times now with no hassle at all. This is off topic, but thought that you'd enjoy. When my wife and I went to Italy for the first time, I had a Swiss Tool on my belt as we were waiting to go through security to see St. Peter's in the Vatican; the guard asked to see it and told me that I could not take it inside. I asked if he could hold on to it until we came back out, but he said that he could not do it. He did tell me that my wife could put it in her handbag, though. Out of sight, out of mind?????????????????????

UNITED STATES CODE
TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 13 - CIVIL RIGHTS


§ 242. Deprivation of rights under color of law

Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any inhabitant of any State, Territory, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such inhabitant being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results shall be subject to imprisonment for any term of years or for life.


For those not accustomed to reading legaleze, the "Whoever" in the first word of this section is the cop. I carry a copy of this in my wallet. Virtually every cop on the beat is familiar with it, and as soon as they find out that you are too, you will be amazed at how quickly they will back down.

I'm totally more ancient than that. I had a 8088 PC with DOS before 286 and 386 CPUs and Windows existed and ran Word Perfect and Lotus on it. As you said 10MB hard drive was amazing... because I had just switched from Apple II which had dual 5 1/4" floppies and no hard drive... and that was a step up from the Atari 800XT that I was trying to use before that. Which was a step up from my previous Commodore 64 with one floppy before that. My brother tempted me into computing with his basically-useless Texas Instrument something or the other that connected to a TV set. I showed him! :roll:

The Miranda was not the best built in the world, but I liked it. Miranda G, 135mm Soligor lens, Tri-X... not that it matters