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I never heard of cheap scanners bundling full Photoshop. Surely you mean Photoshop LE or Elements.

• Theodores 9y ago
  You may be right, however, there certainly was an upgrade path from the scanner edition. This may have been when '4' or '5' ('n') came along, if you owned any version of n-1 then you got the £150 upgrade price rather than the full £450 sticker price as it was back then. So you could get a £100 scanner that was in itself 'reduced' from say £200, with that you could get your nobbled version of Photoshop for free, plus some SCSI card that was 'free'. Then paying a mere £150 to get full and improved Photoshop was not a difficult purchase decision. After getting lured in by the cheap scanner I was on-board, paying for all the upgrades until I discovered that command line image processing was much more fun. At the time there were lots of these pricing anomalies, e.g. ways to get full MS Office starting out with some student edition. I even managed to upgrade Visio from a version provided free on a magazine, before Microsoft bought it. Funny to think how 'clever' I thought I was back then getting 'bargain' software. Odder still is that I now use Microsoft's VS Code with vim keybindings running on Ubuntu totally for free.
• bluedino 9y ago
  Full version came with our HP scanner back in 1996 or so. It wasn't 'cheap' ($600?) but cheap scanners didn't exist then.