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The Aesthedes is one of the biggest and most powerful design computers of the 1980s โ a Dutch-built graphics workstation that made car ads, packaging, and industrial artwork before Photoshop even existed. It cost around ยฃ25,000, ran on three Motorola 68000 CPUs, and was the kind of machine only big studios could dream of owning. The one in the Home Computer Museum (Netherlands) is still running today, proving that creative power once took up an entire room.
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The Aesthedes is one of the biggest and most powerful design computers of the 1980s โ a Dutch-built graphics workstation that made car ads, packaging, and industrial artwork before Photoshop even existed. It cost around ยฃ25,000, ran on three Motorola 68000 CPUs, and was the kind of machine only big studios could dream of owning. The one in the Home Computer Museum (Netherlands) is still running today, proving that creative power once took up an entire room.
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