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The End of the Adobe Era: Reclaiming My Creative Life with Vintage Macs
After three decades with Photoshop — from floppy disks and beige Macs to monthly subscriptions — I finally hit cancel. Here’s why I’m happily back to my old software running on old hardware, and how I reclaimed my creative life. Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Computers, Curious Clutter, Joe's Garage
Tagged 1990s computing, Adobe, Adobe subscription, analog to digital, beige box, cancel Adobe, Creative Cloud, creative freedom, death by a thousand cuts, digital minimalism, drafting table, future proofing, Mac Mini, Mac nostalgia, Macintosh IIci, old Mac, old software, Photoshop, Photoshop CS4, Power Mac, pre-subscription Photoshop, retro computing, subscription fatigue, vintage Mac
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