3.22.2015

Found under a pile of old junk in the back room…

Apple's Largely Forgotten QuickTake 150 Digital Camera

"The model I own is the QuickTake 150, which differs from the 100 (but not the 100 Plus) in the fact that it will work with Windows machines and has added support for TIFF, BMP, PCX, and JPEG, in addition to the proprietary QuickTake and PICT formats. It weighs exactly 1 pound, so it's no lightweight by today's standards. It can only shoot at 640 x 480, has a 1 MB EEPROM to store 16 640 x 480 images or 32 320 x 240 images, and looks like a pair of binoculars."

Quicktake 150

The QuickTake cameras date from the mid-1990s (they were discontinued in 1970.) Although I’d forgotten it was there, I do remember using it. It has a viewfinder about the size of a postage stamp and runs on AA batteries. No doubt the one I have still works, but using it would require scrounging up a long-discontinued serial cable and who knows how many adapters in order to connect it to a computer of some kind. 

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