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From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II for Image Processing
Message-ID: <1168@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 88 19:57:52 GMT
References: <5177@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
>  The solution: go to another computer system. PC clones have plenty
>of image aquisition products available (for a price!), but 64K
>segments take the umph out of professional-quality images (512x512x256
>grey-scale). And VGA is no speed demon. I think I've convinced my boss
>to avoid the 8080sux.

Why?  How about buying a (relatively) cheap clone system with a smallish
hard drive specifically to do image acquisition.  Then, you can port the
data over to the Amiga any number of ways (Ethernet if you wanna get
real snazzy and expensive, parallel port to parallel port if you want
fast and cheap), and process it there.

-- 
Michael J. Farren             | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just 
{ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}!     | dogmatize it!  Reflect on it and re-evaluate
        unisoft!gethen!farren | it.  You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame