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Paul's office [Avid Broadcast, back of building 1] one evening in 1992, CL560 [the fast JPEG chip] development central. Soundtrack is from the tape -- it's what was on the CD player in my office [The City Sleeps by MC 900 Ft. Jesus].
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garmon (0:03)
6 months ago 0 + -Flamingo Graphics poster (where I worked in Cambridge '89/'90). Gave an artist our "Logo Editor" and got back more than a logo!
garmon (0:09)
6 months ago 0 + -What an Avid editing system looked like if you were building it ;-)
garmon (0:15)
6 months ago 0 + -Apple's Quadra 950 lying on its side (open, since the development board sticks out ;-)
garmon (0:22)
6 months ago 0 + -Don't you just hate it when the camera won't focus!
garmon (0:39)
6 months ago 0 + -The most powerful single video compression chip of its era. I finally got it to work (and not without the help of a few others either, plus a week long trip to Silicon Valley!); it powered Avid's video editing systems for many years. (ES means Engineering Sample ;-)
garmon (0:49)
6 months ago 0 + -How to show off boards in your computer? These days, it would only have something like 4 chips!
garmon (0:52)
6 months ago 0 + -The hallmark of the original Broadcast engineering group at Avid, our timecode clock.