20 years ago….

Source: engadget
Posted By Peter Rojas

In a tribute to yesteryear, engadget has reposted BBS entries from August 22, 1985–inlcuding this mention of a very early digital camera.

The good people at Fotomat aren’t gonna dig this, but if you’re tired of running down to the shop to get your photos developed you should check out this new “still video camera” that Fuji developed. The ES-1 can snap 640 x 480 pixel pics with its 2/3-inch digital sensor and then save the images to 3.5-inch floppy disks (if only those things didn’t cost so damn much, anyone have a hook up on cheap floppies?) in a new file format called JPEG, or Joint Photographers Experts Group, that was created last year.

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The additional entries contain interesting historical entires about Windows 1.0, the death of the Apple Lisa and a look at very early cell phones.

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