trash vs. treasure

From: R. Stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Thu Jun 4 17:28:02 1998

On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:

> Are you fond of fractals, but your PC-AT is generating them too slowly?
> How about an Iterated Systems 16-bit ISA fractal encoder card, model
> FTE100. $10 + shipping. (no drivers)

Hold on, this is kind of a cool thing if it is what I think it is.

A couple years ago, Iterated Systems was touting a 'fractal compression
scheme' boasting high lossless compression rates. It looked very
intriguing---one of the things they were showing off was an 8x zoom on a
standard .GIF image (showing all the fatbits) and the same zoom on a
fractal encoded image which appeared like a photographic zoom.

I wonder if this was a hardware boost for this system?

That being said, if you still don't want it, I'd be happy to take it off
your hands for the advertised $10 price.
Received on Thu Jun 04 1998 - 17:28:02 BST

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