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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

how far we've come...

Paul Lee

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I was searching around on Videoguys.com doing some research, and just for kicks, I searched for their top products back in '97 when I built my first NLE. Premiere 4 on Win95. Yuck!

Here's the whole "best of '97" article:
http://www.videoguys.com/Guide/RE/0...+1997/0x650c3ff821ea0e1f10665809afd80d9d.aspx

An excerpt from the Medea VideoRAID (bought the 10 GB model, high roller!)
"Over 9 megs/second... With 5GB units available for under $1000, anyone can now afford top notch storage for SVHS quality non linear editing!!"
 
I remember my first 6GB SCSI drive. Now that cost me a fortune - and I used the Miro DC30 capture card. Indeed we've come a long long way.

Graeme
 
quote:

""1997 has been a fantastic year for new DTV products. I have been using, testing and reviewing DTV products for almost 2 years now. I can’t believe how far we’ve come in such a short time"..."When I heard Matrox was going to introduce the Rainbow Runner my first thought was "Full screen, full motion, SVHS video capture for $250, No way!""

Funny to think we will be laughing about Reds' 2010 technology next decade! Hard to beleive but true.
 
I just keep thinking the "2k is enough" mentality is rather like the "you'll never need more than 640k RAM".

Graeme
 
Well it's true for commercials.

I've worked on commercials which ran for less time than it I spent on them.

No reason to "future proof" the spot unless it's something for the history books.
 
And a text adventure doesn't need more than 640k of RAM.

Graeme
 
I did enough of that on the IIcx, but the 512MB hard drive and 20MB RAM really helped! Hell, I started on a 1k ZX81. Loading things from tape never worked and you basically had to re-type it in every time.

Graeme
 
Deanan said:
Kids these days. You never had to slog through the dual floppy endless swap of hell on the Mac 128k :)
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Apple IIe was my first computer, lots of floppy hell with that. Remember the PET computer? You actually loaded code via a cassette deck. That was our cutting edge computer lab in grade school.

And yet... they still can't build them fast enough.
 
My first was a 16K TRS80 Color Computer. Tape drive and all. I/O and Syntax errors aplenty! My friend had an Apple IIe - I was sooooooo jealous! We also had a IIe at primary school that was hooked up to a thing called the Turtle which was like this huge roving mouse on wheels tethered to the computer with different colored felt tip pens hanging out its undersides. You would program moves and make it draw. It took a good hour to make it draw a simple box! Those were the days - from memory I think us kids were pretty underwhelmed by the performance even back then!
 
"syntax" - that's the tax you pay for being naughty, right? :-)

Graeme
 
I remember being told that wearing synthetic underwear would increase the chances of syntax errors! I always made sure to wear cotton when I was using the TRASH80. I don't think it helped but it's a philosophy I've carried with me to this day - I make sure nobody wearing polyester comes too close to my RED during a take!
 
Deanan said:
Kids these days. You never had to slog through the dual floppy endless swap of hell on the Mac 128k :)
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And inside the case were all the signatures of all who worked on the 128.

Just threw out about 1000 floppies last week.

Macromedia director, hyper card...
 
Graeme Nattress said:
I did enough of that on the IIcx, but the 512MB hard drive and 20MB RAM really helped! Hell, I started on a 1k ZX81. Loading things from tape never worked and you basically had to re-type it in every time.

Graeme
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Ah the Sinclair!

I built mine from a kit. Tape drive and membrane keyboard. B&W modulated output for channel 3 on your TV.

I saved up and bought the 16K RAM pack eventually. Had to tape it to the back asn if you moved anythin it would jostle the edge-connector and rest the machine.

Good times...

-sc
 
Cam Crowley said:
My first was a 16K TRS80 Color Computer. Tape drive and all. I/O and Syntax errors aplenty! My friend had an Apple IIe - I was sooooooo jealous! We also had a IIe at primary school that was hooked up to a thing called the Turtle which was like this huge roving mouse on wheels tethered to the computer with different colored felt tip pens hanging out its undersides. You would program moves and make it draw. It took a good hour to make it draw a simple box! Those were the days - from memory I think us kids were pretty underwhelmed by the performance even back then!
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The programming language for which was "logo" IIRC.

-sc
 
Graeme Nattress said:
I remember my first 6GB SCSI drive. Now that cost me a fortune - and I used the Miro DC30 capture card. Indeed we've come a long long way.

Graeme
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Still have a DC30+ downstairs.

Along with an Iomega Buz. the video capture card from the people eho brought you the Jaz drive. And it's infamous click of death.

-sc
 
Cromemco Z1, with whopping 8KB memory, anybody remembers this one?
And 5Mbytes hard disks, the size of the desk?
This is how I started, what I am saying, people don’t live that long.

Check it here.
http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?st=1&c=542


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Andrew
 
My first computer was an Epson laptop with a five-line pop-up screen. 64K of built-in memory and a mini tape read-only storage tape drive that never really worked too well.

It basically held ten pages of text, so if I had a 20-page paper, I would write ten pages, dump the memory, and then write the next 20 pages. If you wrote yourself into a corner or a contradiction, you would have to figure out a way to bullshit your way out of it.

Funny thing is that everyone wanted to borrow it all the time, because even with the limited memory feature, it was still a lot faster than Smith-Corona....
 
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