On December 31, John Allain wrote:
> I remember in the interval graduation+(1..10) I used
> Integration only once, and it was to calculate the position
> on a VHS tape given its spindle speed(s).
> Nowadays every VCR does real time display. Wonder
> why it took so long to happen? Imean it was only a 1-line
> polynomial.
Yes, but could it have been done back then without increasing the
cost of the hardware very much? It probably would've involved a small
microprocessor. Hmm, could such a thing be accomplished with a lookup
table in a ROM?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
Received on Mon Dec 31 2001 - 19:12:09 GMT