Thanks legodude. That was really interesting. I did a quick look online for Image Magic and found a picture of
a third generation unit with what is possibly a SS20 in the photo. I'll dig around on The Wayback Machine and see what I can find on Kodak's site.
I used these type of kiosks a few times in the past (though I think they were mostly Fujifilm ones) and always assumed they used some generic PC. Wouldn't have expected a Sun workstation to be lurking inside (at least with the early ones).
I had another look for Premier and found a reference to it on Kodak's milestones page (under 1990, the same year PhotoCD was announced).
Quote:Kodak announced the development of its Photo CD system for playing images on television screens, and proposed a worldwide standard for defining color in the digital environment of computers and computer peripherals.
The KODAK PREMIER Image Enhancement System helped commercial and industrial photography labs achieve new levels of quality and productivity by combining silver-halide and electronic technologies to scan photographs, digitize the information, and then output to photographic film or paper.
And another one:
Quote:The Kodak Professional PIW 4200 can also serve as the gateway to more sophisticated image editing. For example, with a feature that will be added later this year, users can network the Kodak Professional PIW 4200 to an image-editing workstation_such as the Kodak Premier image enhancement system or the Macintosh Quadra computer_edit the content of an image, and return it to the Kodak Pro Photo CD Master disc.
