Who invented digital?

Angelo

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/technology/02kodak.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1209720128-HfixD7gob0sewfhh+1AW0A

Scott_Quier

Nice read. And, all along I thought it was Al Gore who invented digital.


Ooops, my bad - that was the internet that he invented.

cmr164

Angelo wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/technology/02kodak.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1209720128-HfixD7gob0sewfhh+1AW0A

In the late 1980's, I worked on a digital 'camera' that was 5.5k by 5.5k by 48bits and the company was Eikonix (Kodak). In the late 1990's the only pro digital cameras available were the Kodak DCS520/560 2MP/6MP based on the Canon 1N and the 2MP/6MP Kodak cameras based on the Nikon. Kodak did have its revenue tied to film but was also a primary driver in the digital area. My old 2MP DCS520 was a far better camera than Canon's initial offerings. Canon and Nikon did what Japanese companies are famous for. They gained IP through partnership with Kodak, then they broke the contract and took what they had 'learned' to make competing products.

rsparts

Angelo wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/technology/02kodak.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1209720128-HfixD7gob0sewfhh+1AW0A

Here's another picture of the camera. Apparently it weighed eight pounds, was the size of a toaster, and produced a 0.01 megapixel image that took 23 seconds to record onto a digital cassette tape