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These were the machines that put the microcomputer revolution into the mainstream. Insight had already been available for years. This was 12 years before the Internet. Computers like this cost the equivalent of $10,000+ today. Programmers and geeks were the early customers. It was expected that PC users would write their own software (the instruction manual taught programming). Early Mac users used the bundled programs to play around with MacPaint and MacWrite. Lotus 1-2-3 and WordStar for the PC had just appeared. Microsoft Excel and Word for DOS, Windows and Mac were still years away. To most businesses, machines like these were just a curiosity.
Modern PCs are 1000+ times faster and have a minimum of 250,000 times more memory! Yet with efficient programming, both of these original machines had plenty of power to do glaze chemistry and recipe management at amazing speeds and efficiency. Both could store more recipes than multiple large three-ring binders and find them far more quickly.
| Glossary |
Digitalfire Insight
A downloadable program for Windows, Mac, Linux for doing classic ceramic glaze chemistry. It has been used around the world since the early 1980s. |
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