Poll: Are You Old Enough to Remember Polaroid Screen Capture? - RF Cafe Forums

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Are You Old Enough to Remember Polaroid Screen Capture?
Yes, unfortunately, but no more    54%  [ 7 ]
Yes, and I still use it    8%  [ 1 ]
Yes, but I never used it    23%  [ 3 ]
No, thankfully    15%  [ 2 ]

Total votes : 13

 Post subject: Are You Old Enough to Remember Polaroid Screen Capture?
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 10:19 am 
 
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Greetings:

With the anniversary of the Polaroid camera a couple days ago, it brought to mind the good(?) old days of doing o-scope and spectrum analyzer screen captures using Polaroid cameras and the hoods. Of course at the same time was the use of x-y pen plotters. Now that most TE comes with a USB, GPIB, or printer port, those days are mostly gone. My guess is that except for in people’s basements and garages, there are not many locations remaining where the aforementioned plotters and cameras are still used.

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You can still find some of the hoods on eBay,

https://cgi.ebay.com/Tektronix-C-30-Osci ... dZViewItem

as well as x-y pen plotters/recorders

https://cgi.ebay.com/Hewlett-Packard-HP- ... dZViewItem

How about you: Are you old enough to have used the Polaroid camera?

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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 11:04 am 
 
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What do you mean "old enough"??? I still have one of those.

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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 11:36 am 
 
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Greetings Steve:

Did you ever get my message via your ________ website? I tried sending e-mails to two different addresses, but kept getting error messages.

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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 1:44 pm 
 
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I switched my hosting companies over the last two days and I just got my e-mail working; at least I think I do. Try to send one again. Thanks

stevem@rftroubleshooter.com

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 5:11 pm 
 
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Polaroid ? You know how hard it is to find film ? And you gotta wait like 2 minutes to see how the shot came out !

I use a digital camera for CRT shots ! I know instantly how it looks and I can then adjust the graticule illumination and the beam intensity to get the best shot.

A $200 digital camera plus a $1,000 used 'old' network analyzer performs as well as a $15,000 'not-as-old' network analyzer ! (ok ok ok, it does take quite a while to determine the actual impedance with my HP8754A where as the new ones tell us in a microsecond.)

Another great thing with that "old" equipment is I can aim a web-camera at the CRT and show what is going on LIVE over the internet just as well as one of the new-fangled-expensive units that has a web-interface and ethernet built in.


 
   
 
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:22 am 
 
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Good day.

Does anyone else remember using a soldering pencil to "write" on the Polaroid picture? It was an interesting way to record date, time, and instrument settings and I used it for many years.

Michael




Posted  11/12/2012