1 Jun
2000
1 Jun
'00
8:59 a.m.
2. About 1982 I started hearing that it was possible
to
build a camera for your pc by "cooking" an EPROM under
UV light for an extended period until the memory cells
were still light sensitive but would no long hold a
charge. Then by placing a len over the EPROM's window,
you had a real time low-res video image mapped right into
memory. Again this is one that quite a few people had
heard about but no one knew anyone that had ever done it.
I can't speak for the EPROM legend, having never heard it,
but I do know some folks that did this with DRAM. Basically,
they took the top off a ceramic DRAM (IIRC, it was a 16Kx1;
this was some time ago) and arranged for an image to be
focussed on the DRAM.
--
Roger Ivie
TeraGlobal Communications Corporation
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North Logan, UT 84341
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