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AV News 177 - August 2009 As technology became more affordable an interest in image and sound quality made the presentations more dynamic. The old Hanimex was replaced, by a Kodak Carrousel, the cassette player by a midi system - and eventually a CD system. With the development of the computer, I began developing the new technology and in 1997 projected live images from Mars as part of a presentation. However the affordable projector technology was poor and the computers did not have enough RAM and graphics memory to make the system acceptable. It was four years later when the technology began to catch up with the needs of the presenter and the technology has developed ever since. Utilizing image manipulation and sound editing software it was possible to prepare high quality presentations in PowerPoint making it possible to have a totally free spir ]Y