Here it is. Three or four weeks of work from what was supposed to be a twenty minute video about one awful, forgettable scanner. It turns out "awful and forgettable" is just how we've treated scanners As A Society, but their early days are actually fascinating.
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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:
oh we're sleeping on a flat bed tonight with this one
(...what did I mean by this)
This was great! And all new to me. Aside from a couple of uses of a hand scanner similar to that weird handheld thing you showed off at the beginning of the video, my mother (and me messing around with her work equipment as a kid) never had a scanner until 1999/2000 and it was relatively identical to a modern flatbed, albeit SCSI.
It was wonderful to see Aldus PageMaker again. She used that after the camera-ready/pasteup days up until Adobe bought it and sat on it and then Quark Xpress crushed its marketshare; and then shortly thereafter the OS9/OSX transition and the emergence of InDesign killed Quark.
