sun camera ii

Hello

I just got a pair of Sun Camera II units (370-2157) but I can't find
any documentation anywhere for them (including Sun's website). Does
anyone know anything about these cameras? I tried plugging the RCA
into the video in on a television and got no signal, and I have never
seen any Suns which even provide a RCA video-in. Did these come
coupled with any SBUS or PCI hardware?

Thanks for any info anyone can provide.

gkl

On 2009-07-01, glennklockwood <> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I just got a pair of Sun Camera II units (370-2157) but I can't find
> any documentation anywhere for them (including Sun's website). Does
> anyone know anything about these cameras? I tried plugging the RCA
> into the video in on a television and got no signal, and I have never
> seen any Suns which even provide a RCA video-in. Did these come
> coupled with any SBUS or PCI hardware?

Well ... I have a couple of SBUS boards which have both a couple
of RCA phono jacks and a DIN S-video connector. I wonder whether the
camera depends on a signal output from the RCA to set it up, or whether
it simply uses a different sync rate which the monitor can't display. I
consider that it is likely that it uses some form of slow-scan imaging
like ham radio operators who are bandwidth limited (by law) use for
broadcasting to other hams. After all, given when they first came into
use, the systems were on 10BaseT ethernet so there was not that much
bandwidth available -- especially if the system was using remove file
servers at the same time.

O.K. The card you need is the 501-2232 SunVideo card, and it
has two separate RCA video inputs and a S-video in -- but no outputs.

There are none on eBay at the moment, based on a search by 501
number.

However, a search on "SunVideo" finds one hit: 160344342925
which includes a PCI version of the card (370-4072) a camera, power
supply cable, and (apparently) a CD-ROM with the software for it.

Unfortunately, the auction is starting just below $300.00. :-(

some notes in the FEH for the S-bus card say:
(3) The SUNWrtvc package is required
(4) The SIL runtime packages are required
(5) SunVideo input is NTSC or PAL format.
(6) SunVideo uses the Phillips square pixel decoder chip set.

It is listed as being for the following machines:

Sun-4/15/30/40/50/60/65/75
SS4
SS5
SS10
SS10SX
SS20
SS600
A11 (Ultra 1 models 140 and 170)
A12 (Ultra 1 models 140E, 170E, and 200E)
A14 (Ultra 2)

So -- if it runs on the 4/15, it must not use much bandwidth. :-)

Good Luck,
DoN.

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Thanks for the information. I got these cameras from surplus, and my
guess is that not just the cameras were sent up. I'll have to go see
if the machines they came with have the SunVideo cards in them.

Thanks again!

gkl

On Jul 1, 12:04*am, "DoN. Nichols" <dnich...@d-and-d.com> wrote:
> On 2009-07-01, glennklockwood <glennklockw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello
>
> > I just got a pair of Sun Camera II units (370-2157) but I can't find
> > any documentation anywhere for them (including Sun's website). *Does
> > anyone know anything about these cameras? *I tried plugging the RCA
> > into the video in on a television and got no signal, and I have never
> > seen any Suns which even provide a RCA video-in. *Did these come
> > coupled with any SBUS or PCI hardware?
>
> * * * * Well ... I have a couple of SBUS boards which have both acouple
> of RCA phono jacks and a DIN S-video connector. *I wonder whether the
> camera depends on a signal output from the RCA to set it up, or whether
> it simply uses a different sync rate which the monitor can't display. *I
> consider that it is likely that it uses some form of slow-scan imaging
> like ham radio operators who are bandwidth limited (by law) use for
> broadcasting to other hams. *After all, given when they first came into
> use, the systems were on 10BaseT ethernet so there was not that much
> bandwidth available -- especially if the system was using remove file
> servers at the same time.
>
> * * * * O.K. *The card you need is the 501-2232 SunVideo card, and it
> has two separate RCA video inputs and a S-video in -- but no outputs.
>
> * * * * There are none on eBay at the moment, based on a search by 501
> number.
>
> * * * * However, a search on "SunVideo" finds one hit: 160344342925
> which includes a PCI version of the card (370-4072) a camera, power
> supply cable, and (apparently) a CD-ROM with the software for it.
>
> * * * * Unfortunately, the auction is starting just below $300.00.. :-(
>
> * * * * some notes in the FEH for the S-bus card say:
> * * * * (3) * * The SUNWrtvc package is required
> * * * * (4) * * The SIL runtime packages are required
> * * * * (5) * * SunVideo input is NTSC or PAL format.
> * * * * (6) * * SunVideo uses the Phillips square pixel decoder chip set.
>
> * * * * It is listed as being for the following machines:
>
> * * * * Sun-4/15/30/40/50/60/65/75
> * * * * SS4
> * * * * SS5
> * * * * SS10
> * * * * SS10SX
> * * * * SS20
> * * * * SS600
> * * * * A11 * * (Ultra 1 models 140 and 170)
> * * * * A12 * * (Ultra 1 models 140E, 170E, and 200E)
> * * * * A14 * * (Ultra 2)
>
> * * * * So -- if it runs on the 4/15, it must not use much bandwidth. :-)
>
> * * * * Good Luck,
> * * * * * * * * DoN.
>
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