On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Brian McEwen wrote:
> Well, the one I liked best was the famous mountain climber who used his
> Newton and greyscale QuickCAM plus Tibet (no one ever explained or AFAIK
> has duplicated this hardware combo) and a satellite link to broadcast pics
> of his climb of ?Everest?.
>
> I found his web site about a year ago and the pics and a short description
> of the way he transmitted them (about as brief as my description above)
> were still up. (anyone recall the climbers name?)
Tibet was originally written for a mountain climbing expedition to Tibet,
hence the application's name. I believe they used an Agfa camera and a
satellite phone to send the photos. No, I don't know where the website is,
sorry (It's brobably around on the web somewhere though)
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