[sprout]

It sounds like they didn't get funding in the corporate world of 1976.

>Although we attempted to address the last question by applying Moore’s law to our architecture (15 to 20 years to reach the consumer), we had no idea how to answer these or the many other challenges that were suggested by this approach. An internal report was written and a patent was granted on this concept in 1978 (US 4,131,919).

That seems to be as far as Kodak took it until digital cameras really started to eat their lunch.

[rtyuioiujhygf]

Not really, Kodak where at the forefront of large low noise CCDs in the early 90s. They had industrial chips that wiped the floor with a lot of the science CCD suppliers. The first pro digital cameras where from Kodak, or had a Kodak CCD inside.