13 Apr
2001
13 Apr
'01
1:26 p.m.
There were a couple of video capture systems for the PDP-11 series, at USC
in the image processing lab we built one that digitized a monochrome camera
signal. It worked ok, but even better was the Micron drum scanner (boy I
wish I had that puppy hooked up to my 11/34!)
You can of course get a cheap digital camera (about $500 will get you one
that does 80% of what you need) or you can spend $49 on a scanner and using
a regular process camera get nice high resolution pictures of your
equipment. Further you can hook some scanners up to classic computers to
keep it "all in the family" so to speak, take pictures on a classic camera
(I love the Leica) and be even better.
--Chuck
At 12:36 PM 4/13/2001 -0400, anonymous wrote:
Indeed. I have some machines I want to put up pics of
here. All I have is
an inexpensive Sony CCD camera that only does NTSC video, however. My TV
tuner card has a capture function, but the camera has low resolution
and limited dynamic range, and is not very well suited for
detailed pictures of hardware, circuit boards, etc.
I'm getting a better card, probably an ATI AIW, and I'm open to
recoomendations on a better camera that isn't too expensive. I could go
with a digital camera and a card reader, but I also have a security
application here that requires video capture.
jbdigriz