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Around 91-92 I had DigiView for my Amiga. This was a hardware add-on that could digitize any still images from a video source (RCA plug), whether from a live camcorder or a tape. It created a digital image that could be manipulated on the Amiga. It could even create a color image with the help of three filters, a la early photography. I didn't have any sort of network connectivity, though.

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Ha. Around that time I was working for a company that sold a digitizer for the Radio Shack Color Computer (CoCo 3). We were a small outfit, so engineers also did customer support.

To this day I remember the address of a woman who was so proud that she finally figured how to use it to digitize a photo of her daughter that she printed it out and mailed it to me as thanks for my help :-)

I had it too on my Amiga. Same time about. My father also had one of the first color inkjets from work that mostly stayed at our house.

I'd include color photos in my school reports. Teachers stared open-mouthed at them. It was like having a superpower.

I remember buying, for $500, an HP Deskjet 500C, that printed at 300dpi, and you had to swap the black cartridge for the color cartridge (CMY, no K), depending on what you wanted to print.

Funny! You made me remember some friends who did that. And I still recall some of the replies from people like drama teachers, wondering exactly how much advanced hardware, and at what kind of prices, contributed to the design of a homework report on a short film we had watched in class. Incorporating images from the early WWW, or was it Encarta.

As I recall it was take-home hardware used by a Boeing employee (and his family...).

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