30 May
2007
30 May
'07
2:50 p.m.
--- Roger Merchberger <zmerch-cctalk at 30below.com>
wrote:
Couldn't tell you the "first" but I do
know a system
for the RatShack/Tandy
line (Color Computer, prolly Model I/III/4) was
called the Digisector
DS-69B - "Hot Lips" Houlihan (Loretta Swit) from
M*A*S*H (the series) used
to advertise for the company - I remember seeing
them in HotCoCo & Rainbow
way back when...
Let's not leave out early framegrabbers. Anyone
remember ComputerEyes? I saw one on eBay a few years
ago, cheap too, but got lazy.
I remember going into a computer store on Long Island
and seeing a b&w Panasonic ntsc camera hooked to an
Amiga through some sort of framegrabber. And the idea
was to produce a color picture using r,g, and b
colored filters in front of the lense, and through
some funky software conglomerating the 3. That dude
didn't have much experience playing with those warez
though. LOL LOL it just looked like a big mess.
A book that I never owned, though perused on occasion
(?) called something like Practical Image Processing
in C had plans for a frame grabber. Prolly dated from
the late 80's. Someone should build that for fun.
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