For example 1995 Snappy Video Snapshot LPT dongle by Paul Montgomery (Newtek co-founder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Montgomery#Play_Inc https://en.wikipe

For example 1995 Snappy Video Snapshot LPT dongle by Paul Montgomery (Newtek co-founder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Montgomery#Play_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Montgomery#Play_Inc.). @TubeTimeUS on twitter did a Snappy deep dive, teardown and reverse engineering down to schematic and figuring out remarked "PLAY HD-1500" main chip is just a XC2064 FPGA. PLL + 30msps ADC + special 2Mbit video ram capable of holding whole field = this thing grabs whole one field of video all at once after perfectly synchronizing to 14.318MHz video clock. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1301990455182155776 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1301990455182155776 wiki: "Snappy was the first mainstream video input device for Windows personal computers, with Play selling over US$25 million of Snappy in its first year.[9] Byte Magazine awarded Snappy its Technical Excellence award in December 1995, stating "Every once in a while, we see a product so impressive, it makes us rethink an entire category. That was certainly the case with Play Inc.'s Snappy."[10]"