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What is the oldest digital pic you have on your computer?
Back about 1990 there was a company advertising a $300 board that you put in
your computer. They advertised in Computer Shopper and it was a video capture board. I bought it and used it to take digital photos off of VHS video tape. I still have the board but it is sitting on a shelf, probably never to see the inside of a computer again. The company is no longer in business and I can't even remember the name of it. At the time there were only BBS's and no internet. (Well except for the colleges and military.) I was the first to post pictures of my local area on some sites. The pictures were good if you didn't blow them up more than about the size of a 3X5 photo. Now my computer has that ability with Win XP to take a picture off of a DVD. So if need be, I can just transfere my VHS tapes to a DVD and capture the shot that way. I still have a few of the early shots, but since they are on VHS tape, I can see them on the video or DVD. |
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What is the oldest digital pic you have on your computer?
Ric Trexell wrote: Back about 1990 there was a company advertising a $300 board that you put in your computer. They advertised in Computer Shopper and it was a video capture board. I bought it and used it to take digital photos off of VHS video tape. I still have the board but it is sitting on a shelf, probably never to see the inside of a computer again. The company is no longer in business and I can't even remember the name of it. At the time there were only BBS's and no internet. (Well except for the colleges and military.) I was the first to post pictures of my local area on some sites. The pictures were good if you didn't blow them up more than about the size of a 3X5 photo. Now my computer has that ability with Win XP to take a picture off of a DVD. So if need be, I can just transfere my VHS tapes to a DVD and capture the shot that way. I still have a few of the early shots, but since they are on VHS tape, I can see them on the video or DVD. Steve Ciarcia in the 80's or 90's did a project that used a dynamic memory chip as a sensor for a simple camera. There was a 200K pixel or so camera in Japan before the Caiso camera's that uses a small floppy disk. It cost in the $2000 range and except for resolution actually worked reasonably well it was implemented as a SLR. w.. |
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