{"id":721,"date":"2010-12-13T11:56:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T16:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=721"},"modified":"2010-12-13T12:05:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T17:05:20","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-give-your-apple-vision-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/721\/retro-scan-of-the-week-give-your-apple-vision-for-christmas","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Give Your Apple Vision for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/apple_ds65_digisector_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/apple_ds65_digisector_small.jpg\" alt=\"The Micro Works DS-65 Digisector Video Digitizer for Apple II Ad - 1979\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>How your Apple II sees itself.<br \/>(click above to see full ad)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This early Apple II video digitizer (the DS-65 Digiselector) took a regular video input and&#8230;well, digitized it.  The result was a 256&#215;256 pixel greyscale still image that you could manipulate on your Apple II.  In an age before consumer digital cameras, this was quite a novel feat of technical wizardry.<\/p>\n<p>It sold for $349.95 in 1979, which is equivalent to $1,054.24 in 2010 dollars.  That&#8217;s actually not too bad.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Byte Magazine, December 1979, p.226 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong>  Have you ever owned a video capture card?  Tell us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How your Apple II sees itself.(click above to see full ad) This early Apple II video digitizer (the DS-65 Digiselector) took a regular video input and&#8230;well, digitized it. The result was a 256&#215;256 pixel greyscale still image that you could manipulate on your Apple II. In an age before consumer digital cameras, this was quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}