Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodak Focus on Digital
From: "Richard F. Man" <richard@imagecraft.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:46:12 -0700

At 01:20 PM 9/25/2003 -0700, Douglas Herr wrote:
>Mark Delk <macdude4@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> > A couple of years ago there was a company ? SiliconFilm ? that was
> > trying to develop a digital film cartridge that would replace the real
> > film cartridge.
>
>It was vaporware.  No working prototypes or test mules.  Zip.  None.  Most 
>of what Siliconfilm did was try to attact money from naive investors.
>...

I can attest to the fact that some engineers were writing code and making 
hardware, for sure. How do I know? They bought a compiler from us and I was 
helping them out on some issues. The code has to do with image storage. Sad 
to say though, that the products do seem to be more vapor than not.


// richard <http://www.imagecraft.com> 
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