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I've just done a wee Google, and MS used special high density floppies for media distribution, with a capacity of 1.68Mb. When you consider that those floppies were not desperately reliable in those days, it was a relief to get to the last disk without problems. I can't remember how many floppies Photoshop 4 came on, but MS Office came on something like 30 1.44Mb floppies. I was also taken back to the days of floppy disks. I loved the bit where Russell Brown having seen the Knoll brother's presentation, ran into the boss' office and said 'Buy this now!'.

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The Mac serial numbers are much less useful since they were all for PowerPC versions if I recall correctly, so they won't work on any recent Mac.Time travel back to Photoshop 1.0 with Terry White: Or there was a new bug or incompatibility in their license generator, perhaps due to a server upgrade, but the source code for the licensing software was lost so there was no way to rebuild it.īy the way, they released a lot of products for free, not just Photoshop (see userbinator's link above), and most of them still run just fine on Windows up to Windows 7. Or they lost the database of who had which product and serial number, so there was no way to verify anything when someone needed to reactivite an old product or move their license to a different system. How could they lose the ability to create licenses? I can think of many scenarios: The one server that ran the legacy license code crashed, and they had no backups. My theory is that Adobe lost the ability to generate licenses - those product activating serial numbers - for old versions of software, so they just made it all free.

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> Adobe (accidentally?) released CS2 for free to everyone Odder still is that I now use Microsoft's VS Code with vim keybindings running on Ubuntu totally for free.

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I even managed to upgrade Visio from a version provided free on a magazine, before Microsoft bought it.įunny to think how 'clever' I thought I was back then getting 'bargain' software. ways to get full MS Office starting out with some student edition. Then paying a mere £150 to get full and improved Photoshop was not a difficult purchase decision.Īfter getting lured in by the cheap scanner I was on-board, paying for all the upgrades until I discovered that command line image processing was much more fun.Īt the time there were lots of these pricing anomalies, e.g. So you could get a £100 scanner that was in itself 'reduced' from say £200, with that you could get your nobbled version of Photoshop for free, plus some SCSI card that was 'free'. This may have been when '4' or '5' ('n') came along, if you owned any version of n-1 then you got the £150 upgrade price rather than the full £450 sticker price as it was back then. You may be right, however, there certainly was an upgrade path from the scanner edition. If you are working on the web then there are so much better creative tools to be working with than the desktop publishing applications of the 1990's. Then I discovered things like inline SVG graphics and imageMagick. That was how I ended up with a legitimate copy of Photoshop for so many years. Then you could upgrade that to the next version that came along.

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Before the cut down versions of Photoshop came along you could buy a ridiculously cheap flatbed scanner that came with a legitimate full version of Photoshop. There were good reasons to run the pirated version of Photoshop even if you owned the paid for version.

Photoshop broke down this barrier to entry as did After Effects. If you had an SGI workstation and you paid $40K a year to Avid to run Matador then you didn't look on Photoshop as a serious thing (it was priced at 1% of the price of the pro tools plus you needed a machine that only cost 10-20% of what your workstation cost). In some industries Photoshop was seen as just a toy. Some products such as Paint Shop Pro had the edge on Photoshop with features such as being able to read more images and have a finer control of what gets saved. I liked the proliferation of other tools that existed back in the day, things like the Kai's Power Tools plugin for Photoshop.

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