On Wednesday 15 January 2014 22:57:43 Charles Steinkuehler did opine: > On 1/15/2014 8:29 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > On 01/15/2014 12:08 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Jon > >> > >> Videolan was yours? I bow in respect, that was great! > > > > No, no no! VideoLan put my inferior product out of business!
How do I spell Ooops? :( To have two people on this list from that era is amazing. > Since we're sharing video production war stories, I did the analog > hardware design and PCB layout for an Amiga product called the Video > Toaster back in the day (late 1980's). Remember that well, we had 3 of them. All of which eventually burned out an internal power supply trace, went back to Newtek and came home with about 16 gauge jumper wires all over it to bypass it, IF it didn't short to an adjacent trace in the burnup. In which case we got a new one. Sort of a rite-of-passage for those I believe. The toaster was good, but we also had a GVG 300-3A/B switcher with an NEC Mark 10 digital effects unit that also tied in neatly with the EDisk I built, and it could do effects the toaster couldn't, and vice versa > A very much younger version of > me is also the guy in a lab coat pulling out his hair in the Revolution > promo video (skip to 2:55): > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb3TYQ3TcYA You didn't leave an impression I'm sorry to say but you did play "the ultimate geek" well, but KIKI kept our putters putting for quite a spell. :-) > Gene: I love all of your stories from the video trenches...now just > imaging having to do all that with PAL and their wacky 25 Hz sub-carrier > offset. It still makes my head hurt thinking about it. Frankly, mine too. > I still do video hardware design, but these days it's mostly in FPGA > hardware, shoveling digital data across a PCIe bus. Not like the old > days of matched cable lengths for genlocking a studio! Then about the time of the toaster we started stashing it in a circular buffer & calling for the readout in time. Called them Time Base Correctors. The analog days were at times, shall we say interesting. That is now about 2 generations of tv from then till now. 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> BOFH excuse #40: not enough memory, go get system upgrade 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
