VC1000 Capture Card

I've been sitting on this thing for a year waiting for a convenient moment to demo it, and I'm glad I finally did. It's a truly ancient (as old as me that is) image - not video! - capture unit designed for the ORIGINAL IBM PC - no bloody AT, XT or PS/2!
Raw images from the unit: gekk.info/vc1000
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[@JessicaFEREM]

One thing I notice, you aren't afraid to use "swear" words, feels more genuine imo, but I understand why people stopped, I just prefer it when people speak what their brain says no filter

[@MrRadar]

The 8-bit Guy did a video about a similar (but much more primitive) "video digitizer" for the Commodore 64 earlier this year including some information on how that one worked. This one works much better than the one he looked at though.

[@Bubu567]

msp is one of the original MSPaint file formats.

[@mibnsharpals]

At that time there were such devices for the parallel port. I had one available that had taken several frames and calculated them into one photo, which then no longer had any TV artifacts. A recording lasted about 1 - 2 seconds. The quality could keep up with simple digital cameras

[@KarlHamilton]

Laughs in Amiga

[@kemi242]

This reminds me of the Game Boy Camera.

[@pinrod1]

.msp is an old Microsoft paint file

[@bitterlake]

what you did at the end is known as video feedback, check it out if you havent

[@lutello3012]

Oldest capture devices I have are from 1993.

[@supercompooper]

Remember Floyd Steinberg Dither?

[@jonmcentire]

Most excellent sir. I know I'm 3 years late to the party but I really love this kind of tech.

[@crying2emoji5]

I love how your video starts out like a 90’s tutorial “Okay folks, we’re gonna take a look at this...” and then less than a fraction of a second later you just derail to, “I have no f u c k i n g clue if I can get this to work” lmao

[@functionalsolenoid5398]

I feel like your intro should end with the law and order DUN DUN

[@DarthChrisB]

You got alot of .PRN files there.

[@RobbieStrike]

My tech class had something close to that in 1994 but it was color! And ran on windows 3.1

[@wutzerface77]

This is fantastic, i love your channel and would love to see you and Tech Tangents (AkBuKuKu) do a collab

[@bALDbOY85]

Love the video, but may I ask why you use The Wug Test on the side?

[@kargaroc386]

I think the thing with these was that, back in those days, computers didn't really have good enough display technology to really capture the flaws of analog video.

[@JessicaFEREM]

8:18

[@staticfanatic]

i studied linguistics, so i appreciate a wug. why is it in the video, though?