James Slick wrote:
Thank you, I was legitimately wondering if he meant the National Security Agency or National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Since they are both US Government agencies, I can't figure out what was "infantile" about my question.
I'm amending my own comment to ad this, I think the OP is trolling everyone.
He has stated:
"Digital photography made a giant leap in 1964 with the development of the Spacecraft Television Ground Data Handling System. It also was a groundbreaker in the use of bar code. "
And;
" I was part of the development team. I hope that you can understand what I have just provided you better than the image that you continue to ridicule. You can thank people like me for not having to buy film for your Instamatic."
First we have:
Early history of the Digital camera:
The history of the digital camera began with Eugene F. Lally of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who was thinking about how to use a mosaic photosensor to capture digital images. His 1961 idea was to take pictures of the planets and stars while travelling through space to give information about the astronauts' position. Unfortunately, as with Texas Instruments employee Willis Adcock's filmless camera (US patent 4,057,830) in 1972, the technology had yet to catch up with the concept.
Steven Sasson as an engineer at Eastman Kodak invented and built the first electronic camera using a charge-coupled device image sensor in 1975.
Early history of the barcode:
On 20 October 1949 Woodland and Silver filed a patent application for "Classifying Apparatus and Method", in which they described both the linear and bullseye printing patterns, as well as the mechanical and electronic systems needed to read the code. The patent was issued on 7 October 1952 as US Patent 2,612,994. In 1951, Woodland moved to IBM and continually tried to interest IBM in developing the system. The company eventually commissioned a report on the idea, which concluded that it was both feasible and interesting, but that processing the resulting information would require equipment that was some time off in the future.
IBM offered to buy the patent, but its offer was not high enough. Philco purchased their patent in 1962 and then sold it to RCA sometime later.
And if the OP was involved with all of that advanced thinking and technology from 1949 to 1975, Why does he need to photograph is monitor? Hell my phone is capable of saving screenshots.
End of rant.