The 1st ever webcam - Connectix Quickcam
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In this episode I take a look at the original Connectix Quickcam connected to a laptop running Windows 95. I also demonstrate how it was possible to get color pictures from a black and white camera.
Oh my god, young 8-bit guy looks like some kind of cyberpunk villain.
He looks a lot like Linus Torvalds to me, especially with glasses on, lol
He looks like young Egoraptor with a different jacket
All IT guys go bald, my source? I'm an IT guy.
soulcreampoopcontrol What about electronics/software engineers, do they go bald too? :D
soulcreampoopcontrol the villian number one
Can we all take a moment to appreciate that he STILL has files from 25+ years ago?! Seeing those pictures is simultaneously the single most nerdy and most wholesome thing I have seen, ever.
I thought the same thing.
My oldest files only go back about 18 or 19 years. But have nothing from the '90s. It is impressive to keep track of anything digital from the '90s.
I have quite a few pictures going back to 1998 to when I was in high school and we had a SONY Mavica digital camera. I would take it to parties with me and well, pretty much everywhere fun was happening. Since they were digital and basically free to take I have tons of weird photos that would not have existed back then because paper photos cost too much to just take silly phots.... I like to go through those albums. EDIT: you said the same thing literally as I was typing this.. 🤘
I can relate. And then there are these people who think cloud backup is a God's gift because everyone looses all of their files every few years.
i lost so many photos by not backing up anything. im amazed he had the forsight to do whatever he did to make sure he didn't liae those memories
Even at 0.08 Megapixels the 90s still look great.
my webcam have a 0.01mp mode and resolution is lower than grandpa webcam
There is a video floating around of a camera guy driving around New York in the 90's with this bleeding edge video camera that could do this InSaNe resolution of 1080i
It's nuts to see the 90's in HD
@@MistahHeffo what’s It called
@@minekid4624 th-cam.com/video/fT4lDU-QLUY/w-d-xo.html
okay thats way better than bank cam xD
It's funny how the first webcam still has the same resolution as most modern webcams
What kind of trash webcam are you using lol, mine is 0.9 MP which still isn't _good_ , but is way better than 0.08 MP
lmao
that's what you get for trying to squeeze a camera in the depth of an LCD screen
The pictures of you and your wife (and cat!) are really heartwarming
Ok
NolimoDK lol
and then you realize that cat is long dead
SandPox 😂😂😂
urdnal nou
WOW! The Quality from the Photos aren't too bad!
Indeed, pretty good for a 320x240 6-bit monochrome camera.
Latif11 honestly, i think it’s better then some modern potatos in terms of sharpness
@@Windows98R haha yes xD
@@Windows98R it's a really controlled environment with a camera on a tripod. That, and the fact that it's got a lot of digital processing involved to combine the images.
@@Windows98R see 3:30 for how it would actually look if you used it.
This is so wholesome ahhhh
please read the Bible
aaah rachie!!
@@swagmankayearIQ ok
@@swagmankayearIQ I'm a muslim
@@damorin2154 do you follows qurans word on lgbt?
Seeing windows 95 operating brings tears in my eyes
If you have an android there's a windows 98 sim you can download :) turns your phone into a legit pc from the late 90s.
@@N._99 I know what you are talking about but there's a better alternative to that, Install Windows 95/98 on a virtual machine
@@coffeetarded goddamn, I haven't screwed with that in a minute. Shit I gotta refresh myself on it..
Starting Progressbar 95...
I don't know what shocks me more, the guy having a working 1994 webcam, or he still having the photos taken with it
It is amazing that those files haven't been corrupted or destroyed after all this time. I seem to remember losing everything on the family computer two or three times from hard drive failure in the '90s (somehow a few files have managed to survive, but I don't remember having a backup). Even some school pictures from 2001-2003 are corrupted and can't be opened now :(
Backups.
'90s. Child.
No file is ever really corrupted, its just trying to fined how to reorder the 1s and 0s
Never doubt a hard copy
Loved this episode. Having experience and photos from the nineties makes all the difference with a video like this!
I seem to remember back in the early 1990s at Computer City, seeing some logitech cameras that predated the connectix one. They had a display at the time I believe with one of those logitech cameras and a Deskjet 500 so you could print a small postage stamp sized picture of yourself. The camera I remember was sort of a white slab with rounded edges and used a DIN style connector that strongly resembled the connector they used on their old handheld scanners. Looking up the DJ500, that came out in 1992, so it certainly could predate the connectix one. I had a newer DJ550C that I purchased not long after that.
Ha! I found it. The Logitech Fotoman! Now lets see if LGR or 8BitGuy finds one :) What an interesting history Connectix had. Parts sold to Logitech, parts told to Microsoft. Might make a good LGR Tech Tale.
LGR! No kidding man your channel got me onto this one, and I thank you for it.
Yep, I had a Brooktree BT878 back in 1996 that I had hooked up to a Signature 2000 VHS camcorder. Used to use it to make GIFs for my highschool and pirate movie nights on Netmeeting. Even with that gear, I was a little jealous of the guys with a "tiny" camera like that.
I'm officially demanding an 8bitguy/LGR collab
3:23 This cat looks adorable.
i feel sad cause that cat must've been dead a long time ago
@@twistedmetalyrock200 if it was alive even by this video it would be a world record. Cats live a maximum of 25 years.
Edit: supposedly one made it to its 30s, but that's not the norm.
yes
4:46 that pic looks like it was taken in the 50s
I agree
Except that colors weren't yet discovered in large parts of the world in the 50s
@@kai990 yes that is true it was the late 60s or early 70s
@@morebadgamers3108 early 60s was when color cams in the usa became known commonly (not yet used by the public however)
320 x 240 is actually pretty good for a 1994 webcam!
Oh and, that trick of taking colour pictures with a black and white camera is actually pretty amazing! I didn't even know that was possible!
that's what many NASA cameras do they have filter wheel with many different colors to capture different wavelengths this rotates over the sensor then they just combine them in software to get color images.
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16799.html
Many medical imagining devices use it as well - for surgery, endoscopy etc.
That's essentially how digital color images are taken today, only the filters are pixel-sized and already in-place over the sensor.
This trick was used by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in 1909-1912, so it's pretty old technique. Search for "russia in color a century ago".
In fact all image sensors are black and white sensors. They just have R/G/B filters in front of individual pixels instead of the whole sensor at a time.
the amazing thing is that you still have these old digital pictures, while IRL people loosing their stored pictures like every two years. Tells me something about storage and backup. You did eveything right.
Redundant backups are key in the digital age. I still have photos from my old ass Razor phone from almost 10 years ago now.
@@MajorMoron
I've my pictures from my old Samsung Gravity and BlackBerry Pearl flip phones as well. Plenty of pictures from my Kyocera Finecam lv3 though, which wallops the phones. I also have pictures from my very first camera which was a happy meal toy which used 110 film. The toy camera was from about 1999-2000-ish and I was 8-9 years old.
Anything important i want to keep, I just mail to myself (gmail).
Ing. Max Koschuh I used to be in the "scene" back in the early 2000's I have seen CD listings from 1992-2004 that are no longer made and the companies have been sold or gone away. Many of these applications still work even in Windows 10 lol, Kai's Power tools, Macromedia Freehand, Metacreations 3D painter, Metacreations Painter 6, KPT painter 7 ( last version before the Corel Morons took over). All the Softimage versions from the first NT version, all the Discreet 3d max versions , Maya versions, Adobe etc lol. Amazing that Photoshop 5 runs circles around Photoshop cc in terms of speed lol.
indeed, I have almost 10,000 pictures from all kinds of digital cameras I have had through the years, from my Palm PDAs to my S7 Edge I have kept them all for the most part (approx 80% of any pictures I've taken digitally I still have)
3:22 those pictures are actually great!! especially since they are made back in 94-5 .. and when you have some nice memories captured on them, they do not have to be full color 10mpx ❤️
Even though I’ve known how three-strip color works for years and years, every time I see it in action it still gives me a kick. It’s like a magic trick!
the moment when you run out of stuff to watch then your favorite TH-camr uploads a video
BobbyMart lol yup
Always better content than any of the trash on TV, unless it's like game of thrones or walking dead. I would mention stranger things but that's a netflix kinda thing. I do miss me some How it's made and the original Mcgyver.
BobbyMart So true
damn thats how i feel right now,. I ran out of shit to watch so i was like fuck it time to fap but let me refresh youtube one more time.
Same with me
when that almost 25 year old webcam is better than your 350$ computer's camera
Quackid Relatable
@SpaghattyLS bad internet, bad cameras, etc
it really is im not joking
how le fuck did i find you here marz
Better than my 20$, Christmas tablet camera which the tablet is AAAAAAA
The quality of the webcam is better than most of the "alien sighting" videos on YT
0:47 - "Easy ball-cleaning design" on that mouse... Man... That is one thing I definitely do NOT miss about the old mouses. Such a massive pain in the ass.
I really hate when my balls get dirty.
@@philbertchow5425 my brain is getting the wrong idea
Mice*
@@RaveN_EDM he meant pc mouses
64 shades of grey sounds like a super nerdy version I would totally read.
Momento Mori
But that doesn’t fit into a power of two.
But I understand where your pun comes from...
"Eight Bits of Grey" would be my preference for such a title these days.
HOLY SHIT GUYS I FOUND HIS FRIEND GAVIN
Nah it's just the pop up version of the original
Me an intellectual: a stack of gray
3:28 *Color video of person carrying black and white camera*
ok, fair enough
My video just glitches out
Probably was a VHS recording.
: he was technically advanced back then.
Must be an alien recording#!
It was a old vhs Camcorder rec
That was really sweet seeing you and your wife from back in the day, and ya'll are still together! Cool that you saved that media. Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.
The photos of your wife and yourself made me feel so warm, you could tell you were so in love with each other ❤️
Also what crazy memories to have stored away!
"Even the Gimp will do it" -The8BitGuy 2016
Hahaha I thought this was funny as well :D
Need to get me a gimp
I'm totally going down to the local pimp right now to get it done. In Red, Green and Blue.
gimp's sleeping
Well, I guess you're gonna have to go wake him up now, won't you?
The color photo trick is beyond awesome. So nerdy and so amazing. Thanks for sharing this after all these years. It's almost as if you knew in 20 years you'd be doing a video on this webcam!
So nerdy? That's how the first colour pictures were taken at the begin of the previous century :D
It's awesome.
what amazes me is you still have all the photos back from that era anything i had is long gone
Your old pics did it for me man! I have close to two decades of digital pictures stored securely, so pretty much every single picture I took with a digital camera and did not delete immediately, I have it. It always impresses my family and friends when they say "do you remember that time when..." and 90% of the time, I'm able to pull at least one picture of that moment in less than three minutes. Long live digital photography!
awwww you and your wife looked so sweet
I thought that too!
Paul Gascoigne and the Cat?
The cat would not be impressed with my lack of feline compliments
Typical Nerd xD
Paul Gascoigne by the way you are broke and shit
Must've been a hit with women because it had 14 more shades of grey than 50.
That is such a geeky joke. I love it
lol
64 shades of grey
Only if the women love to be hit
Rofl
0:30 - They were extremely generous in regards of the lengthy cable they shipped their eyes with! That's at least 5 or 6 foot, I guess!
3:28 proof if ever it were needed that David has always been an amazing geek!
No, it's the merging of BW images taken using physical RGB filters that does it for me.
That's hardcore 90's nerdcred! o7
Whoaaa blast from the past. I had one of those!! I used it with software called (presciently enough) I-Phone 4 around 1995 that allowed me to video chat with my IRC friends around the world. We used to mute audio to try and get the frame rate above 4 per second. This was all over 28k modems.
What network(s) did you haunt? :p
But with muted audio all you could do was stare at each other's acne.
... or type... Typing to groups in real time was pretty captivating back then. We'd do it for hours.
Brien Malone I meant what you could do with the video feed. Jeez, I'm from your era.
The pics of you and your wife are so wholesome :-D
I had one also.... I loved this episode, not only for the nostalgy but also how you did it. And I forgot the idea with filters... Thanks. You made me happy :-)
It was lovely seeing young you and your wife. Actually the first time I saw her smiling in any of your videos!
Looks like it was made by Aperture Science.
r/unexpectedportal
Mabye it was 😐
looks like an egg
you may look at the operational end of the device, unlike the apreture dual portal device.
GLaDOS version, you may look at the operational end of the device, but id rather not see your fat face on my cameras.
ik glados can be mean in both main games tward chell, but the comedy part of portal 2 is good.
@@bluiiCH or a camera from portal and portal 2
you know you're old- school when you call Gimp "The Gimp"
Hey, don't knock RedHat Linux 6! :p
Greetings from Slackware Linux 7.0 :P (Sent from my Amiga 1200).
:P
JonnyInfinite but it is more correct because it is saying the Gnu Image Manipulation Program so saying the is correct.
god, I love to look at old pictures cuz they are so cool.
the white and black format made any picture mysterious which I love
i remember the first ever web came i ever saw, at a friend's house, i was so impressed that i made a small video as a test , doing funny faces, i didn't know the video was saved, over 20 years later, my friend still makes fun of that video, he still has it and it makes me angry each time he mentions it :P
Years ago I asked a photographer friend of mine what he thought of the proliferation of camera phones. His simple yet profound response: "The picture taken is infinitely better than the picture not taken." Personally, I envy your digital camera photos from 22 years ago...
“Even the Gimp will do it.” That could be taken very wrong to someone who hasn’t heard of that program
@XXEcstacy stfu
Jk
Yes
Stfu everyone
Jk lol
Or has watched Pulp Fiction.
@Adam Rx Fuck off, Adam, Nikki's comment was hilarious
Stuff like these videos just make me wounder how different my life is going to be in 20-30 years froms now, and how cool it will be to look back at my old photos that I've taken in 2010's and 20's.
This video is fascinating. I would never have thought of that method of obtaining colour photos this way. People are brilliant. Also really cool seeing some old pictures of you and your wife.
I had the color one. Thanks for the video.
Yes
Yes
yes
No
no
The pictures with his wife are so cute 😍😍
and old
@thepostedtoast *staples toast to a tree*
Meeep
HOI
HOI
This is one of the most interesting videos ive ever seen. I cannot believe as young as i am that i was alive when this stuff was around. Also, I don't even have any of my digital photos I kept from 2009 let alone 1995! Your photos from that time were really cool
It makes me so happy to see people making videos about Connectix products because my dad had worked for Connectix until they went out of business in 2003 and helped design the software for the majority of their products such as Ram Doubler and Virtual Game Station! (and also the camera software) And since he had worked for them, we have a fair share of old Connectix products.
In 1996 I got a damaged Cassio QV-11 from my boss for free. It was really expensive at that time. I was luck enough to fix it. Some time after, due to an over-voltage of the DC adapter, it was damaged again, but so that there's no to way to download the pictures using the serial cable. As I had important pictures there, some years later I hooked the composite video output to a TV card and captured a video of the photos slideshow. That's a clever idea to preserve that memories. Nice to see that you still have such old files backed up!
It's great that you still have those photos, I really regret deleting pics I took in the early 2000's
Wow, I'll never forget the iconic shape of the sphere camera on the triangle base. Everyone I knew who had a camera had that one. I remember thinking how cool it would be if one day people could have practical video chats online. Also that color filter trick was awesome, I wish I knew about that when my parents had this camera as a kid.
This was my first ever webcam. Thank you for the nostalgia.
Kids today have no idea what we went through
- Dad, Internet is slow as hell. I have to wait two seconds until Google does a search. Is there anything faster?
- Son, sit down and let me tell you a story...
polishboot
and you kids have no idea what kids 200 years *ago* went through. stop living in the past and get it through your head that technology and society progresses, and you weren't the only ones in the history of the world to suffer
tor grandma, is that you?
polishboot
great grandpa, not grandma. your memory seems to be going with your young age
tor 200 year kids? Damn, I feel bad for their parents. I thought 18 years living in their parent's house was a nightmare already...
the process of using 3 lenses and recombining the film to make a color photo is exactly how technicolor films work.
Yep! But not only NASA. Plenty of amateur stargazers buy black and white CCD's and take photos with RGB filters (among other types of filters) as this will produce more faithful images. Fact is, that colour sensors have tiny RGB filters applied to each pixel, literally reducing the resolution and the amount of details captured, so using BW and taking each colour and other wavelengths separately is a better technique either for scientific purposes or even just for the sake of obtaining the best looking photos 8-)
The Smithsonian had some amazing photos from Imperial Russia where a photographer there named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii had figured out the three-filter trick, a technique which was lost until re-invented in the mid 1900s.
+Tziu Ricky
Not really applicable in these days mate, maybe 5 to 10 years ago but not today as digital cameras have almost twice the dynamic range of analogue film.
SMGJohn,
The thing about analogue film is you have finesse in the highlights and the shadows. Even with a 5Dmk3 or the D4 or 5. There is still that window of exposure. And then it slams to clipping out white areas and highlights.
Which doesn't happen with film, you can push and pull film. You can, as i have overexposed some FP4 film by 7 stops and have it in a state where i can print in the darkroom... Of course i'd preferred it if i overexposed by maybe 2 stops. But that didn't happen.
RAW is fantastic, but i've never seen 7 stops over on a bright and sunny day.
***** It depends.... I think medium and large format film has superior dynamic range to even the best 35mm (full frame) digital SLR. However, in my comment I was talking about something else, that is the capture of each different channel and different wavelenghts of light using BW cooled CCD sensors, that's how pro astronomers capture the most accurate astronomical pictures.
man i loved this episode to bits its so fascinating the fact that you can get colour photos from a black and white camera
i just LOVE IT, all those memories, make me nostalgic
It's pretty neat you still have those image files.
Back in 90s 8 bit guy was a "cool" guy XD
Виктор Масленников He Still is
Leopold Slikk I know
he had very nice hair
Loved this video-- it was truly like a time capsule from the past!
Wow. So much fun with this cam back in the day. Used the tripod mount too all the time.
It's so awesome that you and your wife were able to hold onto those memories from over 20 years ago. I'm sure filming this was very nostalgic for you.
This is one of the most heartwarming things I've ever seen.
Great video! As someone who was quite young but interested in tech in the mid to late 90's these are always refreshing flashbacks.
This is so cool. My family was ahead of the times and had a webcam in the 90s. I remember using it all the time despite the terrible quality.
For the color photos, someone did something similar with the Game Boy Camera, but they needed a second filter to remove the infrared since it doesn't have that filter built in. Does this camera have one?
It does have an infrared filter that can be removed.
+The 8-Bit Guy Wow,in '90s you looked like Sheldon Cooper =D
The 8-Bit Guy p
I had no idea that was possible. I know my uncle had those filters. But as a kid I never knew what they were for and never bothered to ask. I think I thought they were broken 3D glasses or giant bingo markers. Something weird like that.
Colorizing those pictures seems like such a simple solution and they seem to resemble old colorized photos. Is the method you used the same or similar to how they colorized those older photos before modern software?
Yeah it would be (kinda?) the digital equivalent to how old time photos were colorized.
Not really.. Unless they had the 3 separate sources of color taken at the time the photo was made, there would be no way to use this technique. So in most cases, old photos are colorized by hand with a paint program, which can take hours of work.
The 8-Bit Guy
Yeah true they did require 3 photos. like this old 1911 photo
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Rgb-compose-Alim_Khan.jpg/1920px-Rgb-compose-Alim_Khan.jpg
Some 19th century photographers like Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used the same technique with taking three black and white images with a different filter. Later they made film with different dyes for each color. At first those could be really complicated to process and needed a development bath for each color (look up K-14 process) while "modern" color film is simple enough that an amature can process it (C-41 process).
Using separate dyes on the film itself for the different colors still kinda how they do it today with digital cameras. Only there they use different color filters on the pixels themselves (bayer filter). One other way to do it is with individual sensors for each color. If you see a camcorder advertising something like "3CCD" that means it has three image sensors and a prism splitting the image into red, green and blue for each sensor. Foveon has a third way of making color sensors, but those sensors are much rarer.
Before color photography was available for general consumers some artists and photographers offered hand coloring of black and white photos, which is similar to how you might use colorization brushes in a modern image processing program.
Talk about memories. I use to own that Quick Cam and I used it on Win 3.11 computer running Cuseeme software to chat with people. I was connected to the Internet with my modem. That was a long time ago and today most people do not seem to appreciate that most of the technology we use today is not new but only improvements of things we already had from before. Thanks for sharing the cool photos from back in the day.
The photos of you and the Mrs. are precious.
"The Gimp will do it" = most famous line cut from Pulp Fiction
Michael La Right as he said thwt i scrolled past ur comment
Don't forget - "Exercise in futility."
@@Preinstallable same
Damn you were a stud back then 😂
and now too
Welcome to the gay sauna.
8-bit Chad!
This is so cool. Amazing that you still have those photos
I actually bought the color version of this web cam. I wish I still had it, I'd send it to you.
Great video. I had the Mac version when I was in high school and have a few photos I took in 1997. I took it with me to college and set up a live cam that was hosted on a very basic web page. Thanks for bringing back some fun memories.
I find it absolutely adorable that you used this camera to take pictures of you and your wife!
I loved seeing your old pics! that was great!
I very distinctly remember my parents having one of these in the 90s. This is straight nostalgia.
4:56 look how much sour worms are in the packet now they barely have any
Well, the german version of the trolli are still good.
Love the pics from long ago. The 90s were a wonderful time to watch technology rise. While I genuinely appreciate what we have now, I also appreciate the simpler times of the 80s and 90s
I don't have alot of money to start being a patreon to all the wonderful channels on youtube, but I did subscribe and I am definitely going to hit that like button with every video and see if that helps out YT's algorithm a bit. ...... I like your work. You deserve to be successful. I wish you well.
I cannot fully explain the kind of emotions I was felling while watching this video... But if I were to say it would be a mixture of happiness, envy, adoration among many others. Thank you for making this!
Man, you mentioned Paint Shop Pro, that program takes me WAY back
Nero Burn also takes me back. I think the last time I burned a disk was 2008!!
WinZip, Corel Word Perfect, WinAmp
I STILL use PaintShop Pro 6 for most of the graphics in my youtube videos.
Nah it's still good software for basic tasks. You would get the benefit of a better UI and improved effects with GIMP. WinZip has moved onto the superior 7zip. WinAmp is dead, foobar2000 has replaced it and I believe you can get the exact same skin for it.
Oh, that floppy disk inserting sound was so satisfying.
You know, I couldnt give a shit about that camera, but the joy that you had looking at those old photos of you and your wife. That hit me. Now I will forever have this memory of you reliving a memory with a old camera. Thank you. ❤
Great episode! Another great example of technology that’s been around for such a long time and the younger generation have no idea.
"64 Shades of Gray" by QuickCam
*A STACK OF GRAY*
two stacks of gray?
I kinda like the effect of the manual color filtering, I might try that on one of my cameras.
The color actually looks better when filtered manually like that, IMO.
It can sure, I figure some of it can be lost from byte compression.
Yeah.
That's simply due to compression. In a modern color camera, the same happens but on a single pixel level. Each pixel has 3 subpixel with an individual filter in front of them.
Lucetube GPlusStillSux next time I have a black and white camera I'll have to give it a trial
Super interesting that the brain was in the connector! Great video, 8bit 👍🏽
Wow man you got super awesome memories there with that cam. You look gr8.
Young 8-Bit Guy looks good man! No homo
This is the 21st century you know you don't have to put "No homo" when your complementing the same gender.
MaxtheAlien shaddap you have the gay
I thought the same. No homo.
What old(er) age does to you man. This why you should use moisturizer and sunscreen every day. And make sure you don't go bald. And make sure you're born Asian or African.
He kinda looks like Tobias Forge from Ghost in his younger shots.
I love how you still have the photos from the 90's, over 20 years later! Cute photos of you and your wife.
Man, that's so awesome that you thought to take pictures and videos so long ago. A true archivist!
You still have the pictures you took with this camera, amazing!
Imagine using this for facecam for Twitch streams
Lol It would be a very special vibe
Actually many laptop webcams haven't really become that much better. The Quickcam at least had a decent lens.
thank god for you honestly because i'm bored af at 1:20 am on a school night and ,, a new tech video djdkdh
ddivinezeroo same
ditto
And now all of you are bored af again.
ddivinezeroo ur school must suck I don't have school on Halloween
same man
The B&W to color conversion was amazing!
It is often interesting to see what technologies have become the progenitors of modern gadgets. Thanks for the video)
You (correctly) qualified this with "affordable and mass market", but I bring to your attention the SGI IndyCam that was included with the Indy workstation introduced in July 1993. It was a pack-in with a 5,000USD professional workstation, but I thought I would mention it for trivia buffs.
Two years on from this video I come across it and was just about to post about the IndyCam, decided to read the comments first, saw your post. :D Yes indeed, IndyCam was a year earlier, though as you say, not a consumer product.
Well, The Indy was supposed to be an affordable workstation for the home user. And the price was quite low compared to other UNIX workstations of that era.
And not just that, IndyCam was a color 640x480 cam. Way ahead of its time, as anything from SGI.
I remember when my friend got one of these and it was really exciting to be able to capture real world images on your computer.
That happened to be my first camera, too! Such a nice blast from the past. I had the Mac version, though.
Those pictures are priceless and definitely a piece of 90's history!