30 May
2007
30 May
'07
11:56 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Tony Duell once stated:
Get one? I've got one. Granted, it slowly goes out of focus [1] from
time to time, but I have it. Somewhere. And it comes with a DE-9 serial
connector, and I found some software [2] that would allow me to download
pictures from it. Okay, the resulting pictures [3] are only 640x480, and
not great quality, but it's something.
I even think it's on topic. Or almost on topic.
That is totally against my principles, and always will be.
So, you repair burt resistors instead of tossing them? Neat!
-spc (And yes, that is a poster of Cerebus [4] on the wall of
my office ... )
[1] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/about/1998/focus.html
[2] http://photopc.sourceforge.net/
[3] The photos in [1] were taken with the camera in question,
but resized for the web.
[4] The Aardvark. He doesn't love you, he just wants your
gold.
Some are extremely inexpensive. My only gripe about
But as I poitned out, it's not _just_ the cost of the camera. What do you
suggest I connect it to? Can you get digital cameras that connect to
PERQs or PDP11s? I;ve yet to see a digital camera service manual, so
%deity knows what I
do whne it fails.
Toss it if it's cheap enough. Believe you me, I'm