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On 10. nov. 2011, at 08.46, Rupert Watson wrote:
> After his Pauline reconversion all that remains is for him to
> resubscribe to the Avid-L and take his lumps in person :-)
>
> For me the test is whether you were active on the Avid's First Class BBS
> that the modem they supplied allowed you to connect to. There are some
> names here I recognize from way back then!
>
> Rupert Watson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of electropura212
> Sent: 10 November 2011 00:43
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] AVID kept their promise. - Biscardi blog.
>
> I'm sure Walter is more than capable of defending himself, but I think
> Mr.
> Biscardi meant he was in the first group of editors introduced to Avid
> at CNN, not the first group introduced to Avid ever.
>
> Also, he said it was an older 4 core machine...not an older G4.
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, November 9, 2011, Steve Hullfish
> <steve4lists@veralith.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Nice article, though I have to laugh at Biscardi's claim that - like
>> some
> secret cabel of special editors - he was "one of the first group of
> editors to be introduced" to Avid in 1993.
>>
>> I'd say that 1993 puts him solidly in the MIDDLE of the curve, since
>> it
> launched in 1988, FIVE years earlier than Biscardi discovered it. I
> believe Avid was at version 6 in 1993... the FIRST version 6... not the
> one we're back to AGAIN now.
>>
>> I founded the Chicago Avid users group in 1992 and there were at least
>
>> a
> 100 people at that first meeting in Chicago alone.
>>
>> I'm sure Alan Miller would choke on his coffee to hear about the
> "beginnings" of Avid in 1993. I wonder how many 100s of projects he'd
> cut on Avid by then.
>>
>> Steve Hullfish
>> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
>> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
>>
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