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Yea, computers changed that industry more than digital photography changed mine.
We bought a scanner in about 1990 that came with PhotoSyler. On my 6 MHz IBM AT with 2 MB or RAM and 32 MB hard drive running DOS 5.0 it took overnight to rotate a 8x10 scan at 300 PPI. We ordered another 2 MB of RAM and filled up the expansion board. That whopping 2 MB of RAM was over 800 bucks. I could rotate that same image in just a few hours after that. The computer had one monochrome amber text on black background for the menus and one color monitor that could display 256 colors at once! It used both Extended and Expanded RAM mapping.
Now days I rotate a one GIG tiff file in 2 or 3 seconds.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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