Mixlink (Mixlink II) is a computer used with Agfa scales. It was developed to facilitate calculation of color mixes.

Technical characteristics

Mixlink contains the

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which may be set to either 9.2 or 33 MHz. The

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size is 640 kB. The HDD function is served by the built-in flash memory that has the size of approximately 800 kB. Mixlink has the monochrome

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. Mixlink is also staffed with

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and

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Use

Mixlink was intended to be used with the supplied

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and CD disk, which provided the system environment ("operating system") and the application to be used for calculating color mixes. However, it is possible to install and run

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on Mixlink. Currently, Mixlink computers are not used; their functions may solely be performed by personal computers (PCs).

References

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