I received one of these from parents when I finished the 8th grade in 1980. I think they got the base model though with 4KB of ram, it was “only” $999. I recorded programs onto a cassette tape. Fun!
I received one of these from parents when I finished the 8th grade in 1980. I think they got the base model though with 4KB of ram, it was “only” $999. I recorded programs onto a cassette tape. Fun!
I was on a call with a (young) designer who was going to get me a graphic. I said I need in such and such dimensions, jpeg, 75%.
She said “umm, sorry 75%?”
I told her I meant the compression, and then she understood. I apologized for saying it, and briefly explained it was just a slip from decades ago and no one seems to care about compression these days.
I got off the call, felt old, but then angry that people don’t fucking compress shit. 💩
I think Photoshop still sets compression to something like 85 % (or even lower) as default when you export for web!
There are lots of new image formats these days that work better for web than JPEG, though.