{"id":17649,"date":"2012-07-10T08:48:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T15:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=7069"},"modified":"2012-07-10T08:48:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T15:48:37","slug":"graphics-awesomeness-circa-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/graphics-awesomeness-circa-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphics awesomeness, circa 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ianmoss.tumblr.com\/post\/25659882261\/editing-an-image-in-1990-quantel-paintbox-vs-adobe \">Ian Moss<\/a> juxtaposed an interesting pair of vintage videos. First there&#8217;s &#8220;The mighty Quantel Paintbox with its custom hardware and 10 years of knowhow behind it&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BwO4LP0wLbY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8220;&#8230;versus version 1 of Adobe Photoshop, running on a Macintosh Classic for a 10th of the cost.&#8221;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bhf8q3THToI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe second vid&#8217;s a bit misleading as it shows PS 1.0 running on Mac Plus (from 1986) &#8220;with 1-bit (black&#038;white) display, 8MHz CPU and 4MB RAM.&#8221;  Here&#8217;s Photoshop co-creator John Knoll re-creating his original Photoshop demo:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AdobeTV Video Player\" width=\"425\" height=\"246\" src=\"http:\/\/tv.adobe.com\/embed\/356\/5415\/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Moss juxtaposed an interesting pair of vintage videos. First there&#8217;s &#8220;The mighty Quantel Paintbox with its custom hardware and 10 years of knowhow behind it&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;&#8230;versus version 1 of Adobe Photoshop, running on a Macintosh Classic for a 10th of the cost.&#8221; The second vid&#8217;s a bit misleading as it shows PS 1.0 running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}