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OT: More retro electronics of note

Kodaks first all electronic digital camera from 1975!

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Note the digital cassette drive on the side! And the chunky square aluminium chassis - they don't make em like that any more.

The report included the prophetic understatement:

?The camera described in this report represents a first attempt demonstrating a photographic system which may, with improvements in technology, substantially impact the way pictures will be taken in the future.?

The playback device was much larger and less transportable.

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Martin Brown
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Martin Brown
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I have a Sony Mavica with a built-in floppy drive! I think it still works.

I was watching the World Series baseball game last night [1] and one of the many stupid car ads had some race driver blasting around curves sideways, presumably testing a Dodge Dart or something. On the side of the road was a guy in a white lab coat leaning over an ancient round-tube Tektronix scope on a cart, probably a 545. I guess a little Rigol wouldn't be as photogenic.

[1] SF Giants won, 8-3. 
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John Larkin                  Highland Technology Inc 
www.highlandtechnology.com   jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com    

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John Larkin

Wow, what a prototype.

I was just given one, without the charger. I can easily cobble up a power supply, but where do I find one of those weird plugs?

Mark L. Fergerson

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alien8752

Mine uses the old huge video camera battery. ebay?

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John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 

jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com 
http://www.highlandtechnology.com 

Precision electronic instrumentation 
Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators 
Custom laser drivers and controllers 
Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links 
VME thermocouple, LVDT, synchro   acquisition and simulation
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John Larkin

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Too bad they didn't take their own prophecy to heart and avoided bankruptcy. Art

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Artemus

It was a full blown Motorola Exorcisor development system.

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Michael A. Terrell

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