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excerpt: "Letter from Robert Shade of Philadelphia to SMUG listing 14 items enclosed for feedback on his TS2068 video digitizing experiments. Items include revised versions of the Eye by Night, Videotex, and Video 3-D programs adapted for the Larken disk system; WORDMASTER program screen color substitution patterns; and multiple printed examples of digitized video images in…"
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# Letter on the Digitizer

Letter from Robert Shade of Philadelphia to SMUG listing 14 items enclosed for feedback on his TS2068 video digitizing experiments. Items include revised versions of the Eye by Night, Videotex, and Video 3-D programs adapted for the Larken disk system; WORDMASTER program screen color substitution patterns; and multiple printed examples of digitized video images in B&W, hand-colored, and miniprint formats, as well as a summary of his digitizing methodology and aspect-ratio rescaling work.