Sorry to nit-pick, but a CCD is a bunch of "opto-capacitors" not photo
transistors.
--
Martin K

On 4/12/07, Peter P. <plpeter2006@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> David VanHorn <dvanhorn <at> microbrix.com> writes:
>
> > Nine phototransistors and a processor, and you can have the output in
> > hex, or whatever.
>
> Please, you can buy 300,000 phototransistors in a USB webcam for $20 and
> the
> average 1.5 GHz CPU is more than enough to work with that output in
> realtime
> (and likely faster than any original paper tape reader ever did with some
> tweaks).
>
>
> Peter P.
>
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