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In article <13183@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com>, hbg6@citek.phx.mcd.mot.com writes...
>In article <Iaa=_e200WBKE57EV0@andrew.cmu.edu> kz08+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ken Zuroski) writes:
>>
>>Can anyone tell me if this is a common thing, that is, storing analog
>>information (or rather, storing information in analog) on media
>>conventionally used to store digital info? Obviously the hardware
> 
>We evaluated an inspection system in our plant about 8 months ago which
>stored frames of video onto a 3 1/2" hard drive. The idea was to store an
>image of a perfect circuit board in the system, then electronically compare
>it to a live image of the same board type.
> 
>It's difficult to get any hard technical details from a salesman but as I 
>understand it, one frame takes up one track on the media. One field is on 
>side one and one field is on side two. As the disk rotates, it switches from
>one side to the other to construct the full frame.
> 

John, 

I tried sending you email, but it bounced. 

About the inspection system you mentioned : I assume it  was storing digitized
(compressed) images on the hard disk, in which case it's just conventional
technology ? Or was it actually a hardware-modified drive  ?

Thanks, 

/ Jon Sreekanth

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