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Poll: Are You Old Enough to Remember Polaroid Screen Capture? -
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Are You Old Enough to
Remember Polaroid Screen Capture?
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| Yes, unfortunately, but no more |
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54% |
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| Yes, and I still use it |
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8% |
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| Yes, but I never used it |
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23% |
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| No, thankfully |
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15% |
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Post subject: Are You Old Enough to Remember Polaroid Screen Capture?
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 10:19 am
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Greetings: With the anniversary of the Polaroid
camera a couple days ago, it brought to mind the
good(?) old days of doing o-scope and spectrum analyzer
screen captures using Polaroid cameras and the hoods.
Of course at the same time was the use of x-y pen
plotters. Now that most TE comes with a USB, GPIB,
or printer port, those days are mostly gone. My
guess is that except for in people’s basements and
garages, there are not many locations remaining
where the aforementioned plotters and cameras are
still used.
You can still find some of the hoods on
eBay,
http://cgi.ebay.com/Tektronix-C-30-Osci ... dZViewItem
as well as x-y pen plotters/recorders
http://cgi.ebay.com/Hewlett-Packard-HP- ... dZViewItem
How about you: Are you old enough to have
used the Polaroid camera?
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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rftroubleshooter |
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 11:04 am
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What do you mean "old enough"??? I still have one
of those.
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 11:36 am
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Greetings Steve:
Did you ever get my message
via your ________ website? I tried sending e-mails
to two different addresses, but kept getting error
messages.
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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rftroubleshooter |
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 1:44 pm
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I switched my hosting companies over the last two
days and I just got my e-mail working; at least
I think I do. Try to send one again. Thanks
stevem@rftroubleshooter.com
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wb9jtk |
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 5:11 pm
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Polaroid ? You know how hard it is to find film
? And you gotta wait like 2 minutes to see how the
shot came out !
I use a digital camera for
CRT shots ! I know instantly how it looks and I
can then adjust the graticule illumination and the
beam intensity to get the best shot.
A $200
digital camera plus a $1,000 used 'old' network
analyzer performs as well as a $15,000 'not-as-old'
network analyzer ! (ok ok ok, it does take quite
a while to determine the actual impedance with my
HP8754A where as the new ones tell us in a microsecond.)
Another great thing with that "old" equipment
is I can aim a web-camera at the CRT and show what
is going on LIVE over the internet just as well
as one of the new-fangled-expensive units that has
a web-interface and ethernet built in.
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mmaassel |
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:22 am
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Good day.
Does anyone else remember using
a soldering pencil to "write" on the Polaroid picture?
It was an interesting way to record date, time,
and instrument settings and I used it for many years.
Michael
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