Computers and monitors

Dec 15

I may have gone over/the-top. A new 16” M1 Max MacBook Pro arrived last afternoon and is in the middle of the image below. It is connected to a 34” LG monitor above it and also to a 15” ViewSonic monitor on the right. The computer on the left is the M1 MacBook Air that arrived a year ago and is now the backup machine.

I love the fact that the Apple M1 Max chipset can power up to three monitors. For an older guy like me this is a bit like science fiction. My first encounter with computing was at San Francisco State (then College, now University) as urban studies student in the mid 1960s. In an analytics class, I learned to code in Fortran IV, by making punch cards and submitting them for processing on an IBM 1620 computer. The “1620” in the name of the machine stood for 1,620 KB!

The M1 Max chipset in the computer I received this week has 55 million transistors. The machine has 32 MB of RAM along with a 2 TB hard drive. It’s likely more computing power than I’ll ever use. But it does let me operate both the Microsoft OS (via Parallels) and the Mac OS at the same time with no memory overload messages. Back then I nearly changed my major to computer science, but I decided I was too fascinated with the past, present and future of cities. And then when I got interested in how most of the urban environment gets created, that is how I found my way into the world of real estate.

H. Pike Oliver

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver worked for public agencies, including the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

https://urbanexus.com

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