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dylan604
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
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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mynameisnoone
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
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
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
QuickCam was from Logitech not Apple. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCam
hugi
It was made by Connectix in 1994. The product line was acquired by Logitech in 1998.
porbelm
Yeah, they were nice little things for the time! Luckily I don't think Logitech did much to ruin them back then.
NBJack
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
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.