Add to those the Avid/1 non-linear editor from Avid Technology, introduced in 1989, which ran on a Mac II using some specialized hardware. It rapidly became the leading video editing system for television and film (which, of course, had to be digitized). It eventually displaced almost all celluloid cutting.
The early Avid systems just commanded the VTR's over RS-422 to go to time points then punch in, correct? It was non-linear but the video wasn't digitized or stored on disk?
-- Ethan O'Toole
