Don't forget the invention of the CCD in Bell Labs - 2 guys just got the
Nobel prize for it.
Jez
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Tim Hughes <timhughes@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> <they simply thought digital market was not going to be so successful>
>
> David,
> I think that Kodak saw the writing on the wall very early, but had
> no idea about how to make a business out of the digital camera market. They
> were absolutely pioneers in developing the basic Digital camera
> technology. Fairchild developed the basic CCD image sensor in 1973 for
> industrial use, but Kodak built the very first proto-type digital-camera in
> 1975, using a Fairchild sensor with 10k B&W pixels.
>
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