This is a prototype digital camera Kodak produced way back in 1975. The toaster-sized system relied on a cassette tape for recording data. The digitised images took 23 seconds to record to tape which then had to be played back using a specialised system, shown in the second photo. Damn! 1975? I wasn’t even born. I never would have guessed they had this sort of thing back then.
I honestly can’t imagine dealing with 23-second-per-image write times and cassette tapes. Memories of a Sinclair ZX Spectrum come flooding back!
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