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From: antunes@astro.psu.edu (Sandy Antunes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: If anyone wants to build a CCD camera...
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Date: 6 May 91 14:01:15 GMT
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Hello.  Well, off-news email conversations with john guineau about
CCD cameras led me to eventually find a source for CCDs.
  So, if anyone wants to build a B&W CCD camera for digitizing, I
thought this information would be of general use.  I am not affiliated
with Hamilton/Avnet, by the way, nor have I bought from them.  This
is just a source I found.  Oh, and if anyone knows where guineau keeps
his account these days, tell him my messages to him kept bouncing. :-)

  Well, if you want CCDs, I finally found a source.  The company is
Hamilton/Avnet (sounds like something out of Neuromancer!) and they
have a 1-800 number for their Pittsburgh branch of 1-800-321-6890.
I don't have their most recent catalog, only a 1985 edition (I've
ordered a newer one!) so I am not sure what the prices are now since
CCD technology had become a lot cheaper now.  They had some there
for under $500, so they might have ones now even less!  They have them
for several quality levels so it might be possible to pick up one
for the same price as your average B&W video camera, which would be
nice.
new info-- i just called H/A... their old 1-800 number is dead.
The new one is 1-800-257-8110.  They also don't make a catalog
anymore... they just have a list of companys whose products they
carry (and one assumes they can get anything from those companys)
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antunes@astrod.astro.psu.edu     Sandy Antunes, El Loco d'Waupelani
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