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What is the oldest digital pic you have on your computer?
The company I was working for in the mid-late 80s did online photos
in real estate listing systems. The images were acquired using Sony cameras that recorded analog info on 2" microfloppy media. The floppies were taken back to a digitizing station where there was a player that output NTSC video. A PC with a video frame grabber board was used to digitize the images, where they were quantized and uploaded to the host computer. Resolution was obviously low in every imaginable way; iirc they were 16 grey scales, and barely measured in kilopixels. Brokers viewed the results via a simple board added into a serial dumb terminal. Connection to the host was over dialup, with early installs using 4800 or 9600 baud modems. I appear to have a test image or two from old backup tapes, but need to figure out how to convert them to something useful on modern equipment. We were also known to use the digitizing gear evenings and weekends for other entertainment. I have some of the results printed on paper, though the files are long gone. Quantization effects on old concert footage, anyone? De |
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