On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Olin Lathrop w= rote: >> In a related area, early video camera elements were made from DRAMs >> with out covers over the chips. > > I think that was a later development. =A0I'm reasonably sure using DRAMs = as > image sensors was pioneered by Bill Yerazunis of the Mitsubishi Electroni= c > Research Labs in Cambridge MA in the mid to late 1990s. =A0You may rememb= er > him as "Crash" on the NERDS team of some Junkyard Wars episodes. For a recent picture, see Wired!: ------------- My elbow got into WIRED's DEFCON photos. Where? Lockpick village "people" shot, look in the upper right to see a guy facing the camera in a black T-shirt (head cropped off). Just to his left is a blonde girl (facing away from camera). And between them, a white-shirted elbow. Which happens to be mine. - Crash --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .