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Posted by: Jutman

Hi

I find it strange that the wide is 650 pixels and the high is 1500. Most pictures are more wide than tall.

Posted by: ConnerVT

Perhaps it's because most Windows Internet browsers are developed to scroll vertically; they don't typically scroll horizontally very well. Also, objects that are oversized horizontally tend to mess up other formatting on the page (especially in Frame and Table formatting).

640 pixels is chosen, as it is the original 'High Resolution' size from the original VGA format (640x480x256 colors). Most digital cameras use some multiple of this number as a horizontal resolution.

ConnerVT
Design Technician
IBM Professional Graphics Controller, circa 1984
(The IBM PGC Adaptor was the FIRST high resolution graphics card for the IBM PC. While the EGA adaptor was still drawing egg-shaped circles, this $3000 retail priced card (actually 2 full length cards, with a half card sandwiched between it, taking up TWO slots!) had it's own 8086 processor, 40 16KB DRAM for buffer memory, and could display 256 simultaneous colors from a pallet of over 16M colors. Things certainly have grown (and shrunk!) a bit in the past 20 years...)

Posted by: Khashyar

Hi Fred and Brian...

Thanks for your knowledgable explanation based upon your interesting experience at IBM. You worked at IBM in 1984? That's interesting that you were involved with graphics card development during the child stages of computer graphics

That's great

Brian, the reason that I personally set the photo sizes to 650 wide and 1500 high maximum where that a photo that is 650 pixels wide can be viewed comfortably on most computer screens.

I thought that as long as photos were set to 650 wide, then it didn't matter as much how many pixels high the photo was.

But, also, once you start going beyond 650 pixels wide in photos, then the file size of the photo begins to become prohibitive and exceeds the maximum file size that was been allotted for each photo in the Photo Galleries...

But, as you had mentioned in another post, I would love to see photos from your trip, so please feel free to post as many as you would like.

Khashyar

Posted by: ConnerVT

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Originally posted by Khashyar
You worked at IBM in 1984? That's interesting that you were involved with graphics card development during the child stages of computer graphics

I graduated from college in 1984, and took a job with a small electronics firm named Vermont Microsystems here in Vt. I interviewed all up and down the East Coast, but fell in love with the location here.

The company I joined had just started production on the graphics controller, as a sub-contract for IBM (they had designed and developed it also). It was a fun time in the personal computer industry. The company was small enough (120 people at it's peak) that I got to "wear many hats", as the expression goes, and continue my education in this growing field.

I left them about 5 years later, when they were "financed" out of business by another company, and all the talent left for other places: Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, PRIME Computers, and JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratories). I could of gone to your side of the country

, but decided I liked Vermont too much to leave.

A few years later, I did become an IBM'er, working at the semiconductor facility in Essex Junction, VT ('Silicon Junction'). If you have a Nintendo GameCube, an Apple IBook, or a cell phone other than Motorola or Sony, I probably repaired one of the machines that made the processor chip in it.

As the US economy (and especially technology companies) took a big downward slide, I decided to get out of technology. Now I work in home finance. People always need a place to live, but they don't always need a new PC or cellphone...