Film Input to Digital Automatic Computer (FIDAC). The FIDAC is a high-speed flying-spot scanner for on-line input of digitized pictorial data into a computer's memory. Designed in 1965 for chromosome research by Robert Ledley, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and Professor of Radiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Manufacturer
National Biomedical Research Foundation
Place Manufactured
U.S.
Dimensions
overall: 61 in x 44 in x 30 in
Credit
Gift of the National Biomedical Research Foundation