As the code could be freely used in any form, NIH Image found itself in a diverse range of use cases including spinoffs and related programs like Scion Image (Scion Corporation) for the PC platform. Scion Image was a notable effort by the Scion Corporation to address an unmet need—providing an NIH Image for the PC (Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corporation) community. In the early 90s the PC had caught up to the Mac and had the graphics functionality and extensibility needed to run a program like NIH image but the NIH Image program was Macintosh only. Scion Corporation’s products were very popular with NIH Image users as they made a frame grabber board that was the principal way users collected their images in NIH Image, whether from a gel imager or analog microscopy camera. Scion saw the opportunity to expand 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
