Weekly finds

From: Jason McBrien <jbmcb_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue Sep 17 14:39:00 2002

After looking at my sun box at home I don't think it's the same. The Kodak
box is a lot deeper, almost like a uVax II pedestal. It's probably a RIP for
something, 'cause property had a TON of photo finishing machines a few weeks
ago. Did Kodak own Firey? I always thought they were their own company. I
knew this design shop in the mid-90's that had a sweet Canon color laser
printer with a big 386-based Firey (The 386 was the host with a few thousand
$$ worth of Firey DSP cards inside) They later replaced it with a RISC
dedicated system the size of a small dictionary. Makes my Quadex Q500
typesetting mini look like a dinosaur. Wait a minute... it is! :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Reed" <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: Weekly finds


> At 10:04 AM 9/17/02 -0400, you wrote:
> > >They had some
> > >wierd Kodak computer, looked like a Sun pedestal and might have been an
> > >OEMed Sun 3 or 4.
> >
> >It might be a Kodak Firey (sp?). It was their print RIP for their high
> >end printing system. I'm not sure what a Sun pedestal looks like, but the
> >Firey that my Uncle's store had looked like a fat boxy PC mini tower.
>
> it also may be a kodak photocd system..... last place I worked had an old
> Kodak PhotoCD burner and it was a sun with a few extra bits and bobs...
>
Received on Tue Sep 17 2002 - 14:39:00 BST