30 May
2007
30 May
'07
2:58 p.m.
--- Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
My oldest is not quite there--a Mustek VDC-300 from
1998. 640x480,
but can take a CF card, as long as it's not too
large (16MB seems to
work, but 128MB doesn't). Miserable photo quality,
but simple to use-
-and it doubles as a videocam with NTSC output. At
$150, it seemed
like a very good deal back then.
Is that simply a matter of reprogramming the firmware
to get it to recognize larger memory cards, or is it a
function of hardware? If it's a cf card, shouldn't it
be programmed to support fat16 or fat32?
Just shows how far we've come.
Okay, so what does one do with these relics? One
can reuse old PCs
to do various things, but what's an old digicam good
for?
Archiving manuals and such. Just try it sometime.
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