Photoshop Curiosity

[Dektol Dan]

Although I began using Photoshop with my brother in law's version 1, I bought version 2 after Adobe acquired it.

At the time I still was in the dark(room), but my brother (a physical therapist) asked me to do some anatomy illustrations for him, and he had purchased one of the first film scanners for what was then and enormous amount of money, so I began fiddling with that as an aid to making the illustrations.

I can't remember the scanner make, but I don't think it was Microtek, but I bought (went in to debt for) a pre-power PC Mac and borrowed his film scanner.

Enough history already! Years ago I began collecting old Macs, and twice a year, or more often, depending on the model, I fire them up just to make sure they haven't become Joan Rivers on me.

I fired up the 1995-6 550c today so I thought I might share that one with you.

This machine is the first commercially available with: wireless and this one is (with one of the 50 card adapters for wireless made), first with touch pad instead of ball, and first with TFT color screen.

New it cost $5,500, this one was also been modified by an Apple engineer to be the first PPC Apple laptop, which later was only sold in Japan.

 

[tsiklonaut]

Vintage indeed! 😎

I have still working PowerBook 150 somewhere in the house, my very first mac. Used to love this computer even if it was way past it's best (bought it s/h while at school mainly for text editing), I even ran a Logic music sequencer on it, one of Logic's first versions. 33Mhz, with a 9.5" B&W screen, maybe I should start searching PhotoShop v.1 or v.2 for it, not sure it existed though...

 

[Dektol Dan]

Powerbook 150

Powerbook 150

I had one of those too, but at some point I had to cull things down just for the sake of keeping old software titles alive.

The 550c began at 33mhz too, but it was special because it originally had a math co-processor which was a big deal for Photoshop for image re-sizing. I still have that card for my 550c just to keep it all original. The PPC mod made the computer much more useful to me in that I could run a number of newer software applications as well as the old, and with the PPC the co-processor was integrated for all the Macs.

 

[ChrisLivsey]

At work, pharmacy, we used a IIc with TWO 5 1/4 floppies, we were cutting edge.
We had a floppy with animated gifs that amazed all comers.

I feel old.

 

[Scrambler]

At work, pharmacy, we used a IIc with TWO 5 1/4 floppies, we were cutting edge. We had a floppy with animated gifs that amazed all comers. I feel old.

One of my "favorite" programs was an Australian word processor program for the Apple II, Sandy's. It ran memory resident in 48K of RAM, leaving the floppy for data. You had to have the printer manual open next to you because anything other than plain text required insertion of the relevant printer code. This was back when printers printed text not just graphics and text-as-graphics. 33MHz ... PPC ... looksury!

I remember going to the local Computer club (I know!) to see a demonstration of the brand new concept: a modulator-demodulator ... or modem. It didn't work. I can also remember the first time I saw a Mac. WYSIWYG!

 

[Ljós]

On a related note, I remember when a friend of my elder brother got himself a harddrive for his Amiga 2000. A harddrive! With, if I remember correctly, a whopping 40 Megabytes capacity.
The opinion in his circle was that that was crazy (also considering what it cost) - because how would he ever be able to fill 40 Megabytes??

🙂

 

[ChrisLivsey]

I remember going to the local Computer club (I know!) to see a demonstration of the brand new concept: a modulator-demodulator ... or modem. It didn't work. I can also remember the first time I saw a Mac. WYSIWYG!

We sent orders to the wholesaler using an acoustic coupler for the telephone handset that required listening to the tones and pressing several buttons in sequence to initiate the connection, goodness knows what the baud rate was but I could dictate the order faster to the order desk and get feedback on the weather there 😀