A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera

A very similar PetaPixel article with a couple more technical details: [1] In particular, it describes the reason for the first corrupted image – they had wired the four-bit output in the wrong order so that the high bit was the lowest and vice versa. Thus, all-ones still looked white and all-zeros black, but the rest of the shades were scrambled.

[1] https://petapixel.com/how-steve-sasson-invented-the-digital-...

Amazing, a whole article about a camera without a single photo from that camera

engineers were probably screaming about digital. middle management (who are the only ones irreplaceable by ai btw) probably called it a fad

Kodak invented the thing that killed them.

Cool story!