11 Dec
2006
11 Dec
'06
3:27 p.m.
--- Kelly Leavitt <kelly at catcorner.org> wrote:
to convert .tga to those formats?
-----Original
Message-----
On Behalf Of Chris M
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 3:33 PM
I remember there being a product by AT & T which
was
capable of manipulationg "microdots"
(micropels?,
thereby creating screen resolutions much greater
then
was common in those days. It was a boardset and
may
have been built around the 34010 (not sure about
that
though - I think the product was called Targa,
and
I
could have confused Targa and TIGA).
I remeber the AT&T TARGA. Output was to a RGB
monitor. Input via tablet with a puck and a wand.
They had it running on a Wyse PC/286. I wrote a
converter to the Amiga IFF and PC GIF, but I can't
find the source any more. I worked at the video lab for the County College of
Morris (in New Jersey) back in 90-92. They also had
some SGI stuff and some film printers for the PC.
All networked via ethernet. Pretty advanced for a
community college.
But am I correct in asserting that *somehow* this
device could control the individual micro-dots (not
the Berkeley kind LOL LOL) that make up a pixel? Prior
to VGA, and although the ability wasn't altogether
absent from the computer world then, photorealistic
imagery was possible, IIRC, on a stock digital
monitor???
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