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From: berger@clio.sts.uiuc.edu (Mike Berger)
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Subject: Re: If anyone wants to build a CCD camera...
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Date: 11 May 91 20:48:15 GMT
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peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>This reminds me of the old days some years ago where Steve Ciarcia (sp?)
>in Byte magazine had that project to use a normal DRAM chip as a CCD element.
>I was very much intrigued by this idea, but never had time to try it.
*----
I'm not sure Ciarcia deserves credit for this.  The manufacturer's
literature I received on a very early CCD video element clearly stated
that it was just a DRAM chip in a funny package.
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	Mike Berger
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