I just picked up a MicronEye camera "for IBM PC" - it came with everything
except manuals and software. "Everything" means:
The camera itself (with a ribbon cable out)
MicronEye controller box of some sort, ribbon input and RJ12 output
8-bit ISA paddle with RJ12 input.
A cardboard washer taped to a piece of paper labeled "CLOSE-UP RING"
(and original box to boot!)
The ISA paddle has an AMI S68B50P IC (a serial interface I believe) and some
74LS parts to glue it to the ISA bus. This leads me to believe that the
camera controller box itself speaks serial to the ISA board.
I know from some googling that this camera was often featured connected to
early Macintoshes, and the box it came in indicates it was available with
interfaces to Apple II, TI, TRS-80 CC, Mac, and IBM PC.
I guess I'm looking for any info on how I might obtain software for it -
really any software for any of the platforms would be helpful -- or even
just pointers as to how it might be programmed against. As well, I might be
interested in adapting it to hook up to a Mac SE or the like, as working
with pictures (especially the black-and-white pictures I believe the camera
is capable of producing) would be a bit more natural on the Mac SE than on
an age-appropriate PC.
There were some references to this device in the cctalk archives - it seems
others out there have these things. It also seemed like there were some kits
or third party producers of cameras based on the Micron ram chip, but this
is an "official" Micron product. Well, thanks for any pointers!
Mike