[Avid-L2] A little trip down Avid memory lane

This is a little over a year old, but it's a unique perspective on
Avid's earliest days from someone who would certainly know - Bill
Warner:

http://billwarner.posterous.com/some-photos-from-the-early-day

I was thinking about this along with a couple other anniversaries this
past week: the 40th anniversary of "Houston, we've had a problem." and
the 29th anniversary of the launch of STS-1 (Columbia).

Being just shy of my own 20th anniversary as an Avid user, I've seen
(and tested) a whole slew of stuff - good, bad and otherwise - that's
come down from the LPT (Land of the Purple Triangle). While certainly
not in the same early adopter class as Basil and Alan (The True
Original Users), I can definitely remember the sheer excitement of
those very early days (OMG: Dissolves!) and not really being too
concerned with what the next release might bring or how much all this
stuff cost (A mere $10k for an upgrade to "CD Quality" 44.1k audio?
Fan-frakking-tastic!). The whole damned thing was just so cool it
didn't matter what Avid did (or didn't do). Of course that only
lasted a year or two :)

It amazing to see what today's "normal expectations" have become. Not
saying it's bad, mind you; just kind of stunning while considering
how far things have progressed in such a relatively short time.

-jimmy

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