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Video: The Grey Scanner For Computer (Or: A Long And Incomplete History Of Scanning)
🕑 Added 2024-06-25 15:10:24 +0000 UTCI absolutely did not intend for this to be an hour and forty minutes long but once I got to a certain point it just didn't make sense for it to be any shorter. It's basically two videos, but the thing doesn't make sense without the history and the history isn't meaningful without the thing, and then in order to explain the history I had to explain how three-tube video cameras work, so. Here you go. It took way, way, way too long to create and I'm sure I'll find even more errors and have to make yet another edit, but on the off chance that this is actually the final version, please enjoy.
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Ryan Butler
The radius pivot had the first widely available Mac video card, in 1986, which was also the first widely available dual raster bitmap monitor solution on any platform.
Ryan Butler
Also, quickdraw actually has loads of hardware independence, and a variety of video cards were produced for mac's as early as 1986. Software from as early as 1985 scales to the size of the screen you have. So mac's also had hardware independent video, with 32bit color introduced in 1988 or so.
