Vision stuff for SPARC-I ==> Summary

[Junan Chen]

The following is the summary of the response to our request for an image
grabber for sparc-I which was posted on sun-spots, v9n302:

I got couple of pieces of imformation on frame grabber which were claimed
to be able to interface to SPARC-I directly. The one we are very
interested is the SPARC Card TC PIP from RASTEROPS Co. This product has
just been summsrized by Florian. Please refer to sun-spot digest, v9n302
to get more detailed information. The basic software to manupulate the
grabber comes with 3.5" minidisk.  The other board we found is the
DASM-FGM monochrome frame grabber from CDA Division. DASM-FGM can
interface to a SPARC station via the SC SI port and works as a virtual
SCSI disk driver. Image data is stored in the DASM-FGM as SCSI blocks.
Software is available from CDA. But as I know, to make DASM-FGM work with
SPARC-I the kernal of SUNOS has to be modified. The prices of above two
products are almost the same, ranging from $6000 U.S.D. to $10000 U.S.D.
depending on what configuration you need. But CDA only gives 20% I heard
that Sun Co. may announce a forthcoming image grabber for sparcstation
very soon, but I can't comfirm it.

Address of CDA:
	ANALOGIC
	CDA computer design & applications division
	8 Centennial Drive
	Centennial Industrial Park
	Peabody, Massachusetts 01961
	tel (508) 977-3030
	Fax (508) 977-9220

Junan Chen
chenjc at qucdn.bitnet