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Quicktake for Apple II

53 points by mikerg87 3y ago

dylan604 3y ago
I love these "to see if I could" type of projects. I really miss the days of those cable connectors as they're not yet too small to make DIYing anything with them easy. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there's a InstaSnapGramX low bit filter for the lulz
LanzVonL 3y ago
They said "it was possible" and maybe so, but not with any of the tooling we had in those days lol.
- deleted 3y ago
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dang 3y ago
Somewhat related: Apple QuickTake - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29738115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29738115 - Dec 2021 (3 comments) Apple QuickTake 100 Digital Camera - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18062686 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18062686 - Sept 2018 (2 comments)
mynameisnoone 3y ago
Other camera things. - Handspring Eyemodule2 ($199) 640x480 (4:3) x 8-bit stills and video - Apple QuickCam was the first PC webcam - The first digital camera was the Dycam Model 1/Logitech Fotoman I'm curious what the first computer-attached, direct capture, digital cameras were for various platforms because digital photographs were being taken before 1993 without film and not the more expensive DSLR.
- kalleboo 3y ago
  There were a bunch of still video capture solutions you could hook an NTSC camera up to your 8-bit home computer era (Apple II or C64)
  - rwmj 3y ago
    I remember seeing someone capture a single frame of TV (or possibly from a VHS video) on an Amstrad PCW at a trade conference some time in the late 80s and thinking that was the most incredible piece of technology ever. A frame of TV displayed in glorious dithered green phosphor.
- nier 3y ago
  QuickCam was from Logitech not Apple. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCam
  - hugi 3y ago
    It was made by Connectix in 1994. The product line was acquired by Logitech in 1998.
    - porbelm 3y ago
      Yeah, they were nice little things for the time! Luckily I don't think Logitech did much to ruin them back then.
- Rediscover 3y ago
  Cromemco Cyclops? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco_Cyclops https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco_Cyclops http://wsudbrink.dyndns.org:8080/cyclops/index.html http://wsudbrink.dyndns.org:8080/cyclops/index.html Back in the Apple ][ days, using de-capped RAM chips was a thing. https://hackaday.com/2014/04/05/taking-pictures-with-a-dram-chip/ https://hackaday.com/2014/04/05/taking-pictures-with-a-dram-...
NBJack 3y ago
The //c still holds a special place in my heart as the first computer I had access to. And I can safely say, despite its weight, it actually was a portable device. We took it at least once to my grandparents house, hooking it up via that universal composite video cable to their TV via the VCR IIRC. Good times.
- vidanay 3y ago
  I had a //c when I went to college in 1989. I was proud of my little 9" green screen computer. Then I found out that the guy down the hallway had an Amiga with a full color monitor.

53 points by mikerg87 3y ago

I love these "to see if I could" type of projects. I really miss the days of those cable connectors as they're not yet too small to make DIYing anything with them easy. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there's a InstaSnapGramX low bit filter for the lulz

LanzVonL 3y ago

They said "it was possible" and maybe so, but not with any of the tooling we had in those days lol.

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dang 3y ago

Somewhat related: Apple QuickTake - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29738115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29738115 - Dec 2021 (3 comments) Apple QuickTake 100 Digital Camera - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18062686 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18062686 - Sept 2018 (2 comments)

mynameisnoone 3y ago

Other camera things. - Handspring Eyemodule2 ($199) 640x480 (4:3) x 8-bit stills and video - Apple QuickCam was the first PC webcam - The first digital camera was the Dycam Model 1/Logitech Fotoman I'm curious what the first computer-attached, direct capture, digital cameras were for various platforms because digital photographs were being taken before 1993 without film and not the more expensive DSLR.

kalleboo 3y ago
There were a bunch of still video capture solutions you could hook an NTSC camera up to your 8-bit home computer era (Apple II or C64)
- rwmj 3y ago
  I remember seeing someone capture a single frame of TV (or possibly from a VHS video) on an Amstrad PCW at a trade conference some time in the late 80s and thinking that was the most incredible piece of technology ever. A frame of TV displayed in glorious dithered green phosphor.
nier 3y ago
QuickCam was from Logitech not Apple. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCam
- hugi 3y ago
  It was made by Connectix in 1994. The product line was acquired by Logitech in 1998.
  - porbelm 3y ago
    Yeah, they were nice little things for the time! Luckily I don't think Logitech did much to ruin them back then.
Rediscover 3y ago
Cromemco Cyclops? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco_Cyclops https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco_Cyclops http://wsudbrink.dyndns.org:8080/cyclops/index.html http://wsudbrink.dyndns.org:8080/cyclops/index.html Back in the Apple ][ days, using de-capped RAM chips was a thing. https://hackaday.com/2014/04/05/taking-pictures-with-a-dram-chip/ https://hackaday.com/2014/04/05/taking-pictures-with-a-dram-...

NBJack 3y ago

The //c still holds a special place in my heart as the first computer I had access to. And I can safely say, despite its weight, it actually was a portable device. We took it at least once to my grandparents house, hooking it up via that universal composite video cable to their TV via the VCR IIRC. Good times.

vidanay 3y ago
I had a //c when I went to college in 1989. I was proud of my little 9" green screen computer. Then I found out that the guy down the hallway had an Amiga with a full color monitor.