Re: Blast from the past

[P3D Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

|> 
|This rang a muffled bell back in the cobwebs of my mind. Didn't some other
|company do something like this a few years back? I seem to remember some
|(relatively) cheap kid's video camera that produced a badly degraded B&W image
|that had to be patched into a VCR to be recorded. (This back in the days when an
|"inexpensive" camcorder was somewhere up near $1000.) Any other old-timers
|remember anything like this?

I think that was Fischer-Price. Consumer's reports did a short thing
on it once (they didn't like it, suprise - suprise). Strangely
enough, they have become something of a collector's item these days,
according to the postings on sci.electronics.

--B.W.

THANKS

  -------- Bob Wier ----- wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----
         7:24 PM Tuesday, October 8, 1996 
      Texas A & M University - Commerce
   keeper of the Motorola MC68HC11, ICOM Radio, 
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