Cathode Ray Dude - CRD | A Long And Incomplete History of Scanners @CathodeRayDude | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
I absolutely did not intend for this to be an hour and forty minutes long.

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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