30 May
2007
30 May
'07
4:20 p.m.
be marketed and the first to record images on
removable flash card media.
It recorded images digitally on SRAM memory cards (SRAM - Static Access
How can SRAM (Static Random Access Memory, BTW) be a 'flash card'?
Random Memory), with built-in battery for maintaining
the memory rather than
on a floppy disk as used by still video cameras of that time. The card was
developed jointly with Toshiba. 400K CCD. Fixed-focus 16mm f/5.6 (f/4
with flash) lens. Shutter 1/60 to 1/2000 second. *Understanding Electronic
Photography*, John J. Larish, 1990, p44.
-tony