There was a story about this in the New York Times, just before I left for India. This is the first digital camera and is over 30 years old. It was invented by Steven J. Sasson, an electrical engineer at Eastman Kodak. Who would have known that they were creating their downfall. It is about 12″ x 12″ and records the images to cassette tapes!
It took 23 seconds to record the digitized image to the cassette. The image was viewed by removing the cassette from the camera and placing it in a custom playback device. This playback device incorporated a cassette reader and a specially built frame store. This custom frame store received the data from the tape, interpolated the 100 captured lines to 400 lines, and generated a standard NTSC video signal, which was then sent to a television set.
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