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Buffer Memory Card FRONT OF A BUFFER MEMORY IMAGE CARD CONTAINING 64KB X 16-BITS OF DYNAMIC RAM CONSTRUCTED FROM 4KX1 BIT DYNAMIC RAM CHIPS

The Real Time Picture Processor (RTPP) was one of the first special-purpose hardware computers developed for grayscale image processing and was designed to aid in biological image analysis.




 

 

 

 

 

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Last updated: 16 June 2009
First published: 2 February 2005
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