Reading notes, boxed

Reading notes in boxes

The picture includes a data chip, which can hold the digitized reading notes from Bill Ritchie's data storage on the family's computers and personal cloud storage. These total about 7.2 Mb of storage on such a chip. Bill started taking reading notes as a student and the habit continues today. The 3X5 cards were serviceable until he began using computers in 1979, but hand-written notes, in tiny writing, are still the best way to make the information sink in. The notes were to be for the Art Student project Carl Chew conceived in 1987 - a disc to augment students' experiences in art school. It notion was that the art professors' inner sanctum, like his or her private library, might be useful for the student to probe deeply into the courses taught by this teacher, almost like finding bookmarks or highlights in the professor's books.