<P> The company was known for running their computer operations on a main frame computer system that utilized an Ultimate operating system (also known as PICK), an early computer system similar to typical SQL database server systems that operate today . As was the case with the Seattle First National Bank Capital Management Project (using the same operating system) during the mid to late 1980s, this computer system was known to be very unreliable, with hard drive crashes and various indexing problems during downtime (as a result of lengthy recovery procedures) that resulted in database management and I.T. management problems (see Oregon State University case study on the Seattle First National Bank Capital Management Project for details), but the company was more successful in its applications than Seafirst before the system was discontinued in 1999 . </P> <P> Seattle FilmWorks was renamed PhotoWorks.com . In 2000, six plaintiffs took legal action against PhotoWorks at King County Superior Court, Seattle . The action alleged that FilmWorks had engaged in deceptive practices as its film could only be developed by the company and that' free' rolls of film were actually charged for . The company settled the claims out - of - court, and promised to give 900,000 free rolls of C - 41 film to its customers within one year and 300,000 rolls to customers that did not qualify as part of the first group but who requested a roll in the following six months . PhotoWorks also agreed to stop claiming its film could only be developed by PhotoWorks . In 2001, PhotoWorks operated 35 retail outlets, but began closing them as it concentrated upon its mail order and internet business . By August 2003, only eight of these outlets remained when the company announced that these would be closed by the end of September 2003 . PhotoWorks discontinued all film processing in 2010 after it was purchased by American Greetings . PhotoWorks ceased operations in all forms in early 2011 and sold its customer list to Shutterfly . </P>

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