its hardware framegrabber market to the PC by making a Windows version of NIH Image. On their own, with no input from Rasband, they did a full port of the Pascal based NIH Image to the C programming language and released the resulting program as Scion Image. Unfortunately, users found it to be buggy and since the program was closed source there was no way for Rasband and the community to fix these problems. Scion Image never did achieve a large user base and the need for NIH Image for Windows largely remained unmet.
