On Wednesday 15 January 2014 12:23:35 EBo did opine: [snip a lot of boring history]
> > with an > > old maid music teacher I finally made legal in '89, so next Dec 2, > > we'll > > have 25 years in without ever strongly thinking of an Alaskan > > Divorce. And > > by then I'll be 80. > > Gene. Congrats on finding the old maid music teacher, and the past 25 > years! > > Cool projects BTW. > > > EBo -- Thanks Ebo. That 1802 project came about because its job was the most mistake prone job in the whole production of a commercial, often taking 2 or 3 runs at dubbing the tape to a copy of the master tape, which itself was not in great condition. By doing it, I learned about these things called computers from the foundation up as I had never had a chance to play with them until then. Based on a Cosmac Elf from Quest, I built the rest of it either from kits, a 4k of static ram kit on an s100 board was $400 then, or designed and built everything else but the case and s100 backplane. So it was about 25% whole cloth. And it made that drudgery job into one of putting the target tape into the machine, a Sony 2850 with a remote control kit in it, grabbing the pendant with all the buttons on it, driving the machine to the exact frame you wanted to be the first air frame, and pushing the the right button to tell it how long the commercial was. People interaction other than ejecting and taking the tape to the cold storage vault, was over. Job done. It then backed the tape up 15 seconds, and I did have some trouble with the production folks who didn't understand the need for 15 seconds of recorded black in front of their "masterpiece", then rolled it forward, bringing in a video insert of my academy leader at 9.9 seconds from first video, triggering a queue tone insert for 1 second at "t-5" seconds, turning off the academy insert at t-2, then letting it roll for the length selected while putting another tone on the tape at last frame - 5 seconds. The second tone started the next machine in the sequence if it was programmed into the ASB machine. We cheated a little, allowing only 29.5 seconds for a :30 spot etc, because the machine would, when it ran out of tapes to play, fell back to passing the slide camera thru with a station ID slide showing, so we always had a video iD up for 1 or 2 seconds at the end of a long break. My gizmo got rid of at least 1 dub generation, which in 3/4" u-matic tape days was a huge improvement in the image quality, and saved production once they got the hang of it, at least 2 man hours a day. So if it had a long "flight" time, we'd dub a backup copy but with decent machine maintenance to prevent tape damage, the backup copy was rarely used. And now I've bored everybody again. And it will happen again, I promise. :-) Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -George Bernard Shaw A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
