A preview of the future – Unsung

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In his latest video, Shelby from Tech Tangents unpacked, installed, and put to use a truly forgotten product: IBM 3119, one of the first consumer flatbed scanners. The setup was a small nightmare, needing a rare hardware card installed in a specific computer, an ultra-particular combination of two operating systems working in lockstep, and even some careful memory balancing. Even after all that, a 300dpi page scanner in the late 1980s was still a force to be reckoned with. It’s hard to remember how enormous scanned files were compared to anything else then, even on a black-and-white…

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