{"id":754,"date":"2011-04-11T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T20:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=754"},"modified":"2011-04-18T14:05:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T19:05:34","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-snappy-video-snapshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/754\/retro-scan-of-the-week-snappy-video-snapshot","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Snappy Video Snapshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/snappy_video_snapshot_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/snappy_video_snapshot_small.jpg\" alt=\"Snappy Video Snapshot Ad - 1995\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>If Dvorak loved it (see quote), then there must be something terribly wrong.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Snappy is one of the greatest gadgets I&#8217;ve ever owned.  It captured full color still images from a composite video input in a variety of resolutions and interfaced to a PC via a parallel port connection.  The greatest part was its price &#8212; the MSRP in 1995 started at $199.95, which was staggeringly low for a device of that capability.  In effect, the Snappy turned your family camcorder into a digital still camera at a time when digital cameras were rare and extremely expensive.<\/p>\n<p>I used my Snappy to capture <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/365\" target=\"_blank\">my first digital photos<\/a> and some of the earliest directly digitized screenshots of video games ever made, which I distributed on my BBS.  This was at a time before widespread emulation, so it was miraculous to have a JPEG file of, say, <a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/snappy\/ZELDATTL.JPG\" target=\"_blank\">The Legend of Zelda&#8217;s title screen<\/a> on your computer.<\/p>\n<p>To see the 1979 equivalent of the Snappy, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/721\" target=\"_blank\">this Retro Scan<\/a> from last December.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From ComputerLife, October 1995, p.210 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> When did you take your first digital picture?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Dvorak loved it (see quote), then there must be something terribly wrong. The Snappy is one of the greatest gadgets I&#8217;ve ever owned. It captured full color still images from a composite video input in a variety of resolutions and interfaced to a PC via a parallel port connection. The greatest part was its [&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-754","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\/754","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=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3072,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/3072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}