Transfer Personal IRIS images to VCR

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ams at gauss.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Simms) writes:

	B.  Abacus and others make a different type of controller.
	This device sits on your ethernet and has a 1.2 Gigabyte
	disk on it.  You write software that FTPs your image
	to the Abacus.  It stores sequential frames on disk, and 
	then it will write them out to a VCR. [ ...]
	It should also be noted that this device cannot do
	real time recording.

Not completely true.  I've used an Abekas (note the non-Webster
spelling) machine that took NTSC video input, digitized and stored it
on its big mama disk.  It handled both realtime and frame by frame
animation.

Jim Helman
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