Re: [Avid-L2] OT: graphics from the past

yup, 20+ years ago. NVI in NYC had three of them - the 3650 sounds familiar - and they were like fridges size-wise. looked great on the machine, not so great off tape (SD only), and were SLOW....
b

On Jul 16, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Ferenc Koscso wrote:

> I liked Symbolics a lot.
> I was using several Symbolics system , I remember a big one called 3650. :)
> I even got training in High Wycombe, where their head office was sometime
> around 1993. Saw one of the very first HD resolution graphics/3d animation
> there, while it was rendered at the office, it was a kind anti AIDS ad if í
> remember well.
> One of the very first 3D animation award at Cannes International Advertising
> Film Festival
> was a Golden Lion Award for Best Commercial 1992, BMW ³Mercury², which was
> made on a Symbolics system with heavy use of its programming language LISP.
> It was exactly 20 years ago :)
>
> Ferenc
>
> From: Bruce Tovsky <bruce@skeletonhome.com>
> Reply-To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Monday, July 16, 2012 8:05 PM
> To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] OT: graphics from the past
>
> you got it to work for 20 minutes????? let's talk about Symbolics next!!!
>
> On Jul 16, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Jeff Krebs wrote:
>
> > I love the Quantel Paintbox line -
> > you can store 180 full frame images!.
> >
> > I remember spending years on the Dubner Graphics Factory after we retired
> > our 20k.
> > And the 3d module sucked. I remember the engineer at NAB when we complained
> > about it telling us to "get off his back"
> > $100, 000 for the privilege of crashing every 20 minutes.
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:26 AM, oliverpetersvidy <
> > oliverpeters@oliverpeters.com <mailto:oliverpeters%40oliverpeters.com> >
> wrote:
> >
> >> **
> >>
> >>
> >> A nice look back:
> >>
> >> http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2012/07/graphics-awesomeness-circa-1990.html
> >>
> >> - Oliver
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Krebs
> > Director of Sales
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> > http://www.eyeonline.com
> >
> >
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