A Long And Incomplete History of Scanners

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I absolutely did not intend for this to be an hour and forty minutes long. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cathoderaydude Tip me: https://ko-fi.com/cathoderaydude Wolf photo: https://32bites.com/s5i1v4f16x8mp1vvorzflu3t2rxibm Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:37 The Knowledge Vacuum 00:05:35 The Questions 00:06:06 ACT ONE= The Grey Scanner For Computer 00:09:50 The Ports Conundrum 00:14:37 Hardware setup & the Video Conundrum 00:17:49 The scanning experience 00:20:38 Quality Or Lack Thereof 00:24:30 The purpose of scanners in 91 00:29:13 Windows desktop publishing in 91 00:34:53 The state of printing in 91 00:36:24 Memory, 1-bit color, and halftones 00:50:56 Hardware teardown 00:58:47 ACT TWO= The history of scanners 00:59:24 Pre-consumer flatbeds 01:05:35 The consumer scanner explosion 01:12:10 What the hell was the ScanJet Plus?? 01:15:55 The greyscale days 01:20:44 Dawn of color 01:23:52 The modern scanner takes shape 01:27:20 The Color Conundrum 01:31:20 Slow decline of greyscale 01:35:35 Forty years of scanning 01:37:20 Errata 01:39:14 Outro