Hallam-Baker, Phillip writes: > Try a bank of flashing LEDS. Even banks of flashing LEDs are rare these days. I recall mainframes with large control panels that were awash in LEDs (or small neon lamps, earlier on), and I thought they were exceedingly cool (and still do). But they were very expensive and weren't used very often, and so they went away. Banks of switches disappeared a bit earlier. Spinning tape drives should always be shot from low oblique angles, with the computer room lights turned off and replaced by carefully placed colored spotlights (the ones in the back have to be blue or green). Test and diagnostic software that zips through tapes at high speed can be very handy. Or you can run tape copies with delay loops or on a heavily-loaded system so that the tapes screech to a halt every few seconds. For still photography, make sure someone dressed for a board meeting is extending an index finger towards a button on the equipment somewhere. In fact, the person pushing the button should be a woman, and there should be a man in conservative dress behind her standing with a clipboard, looking on with authority and approval. In the U.S., they must not both be WASPs, but one should be. If you must shoot screens, keep them monochrome and run listings of program source code (any language will do). Memory dumps can work too, although they are a bit less varied. It used to be that there had to be an oscilloscope somewhere in the frame, but that's not necessary now. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf