Transfer Personal IRIS images to VCR

[Steve Lamont]

In article <JIM.89Nov19115902 at baroque.Stanford.EDU> jim at baroque.Stanford.EDU (unknown) writes:

>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.   ...
>
>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.

Actually, I think you're both right.  There are several flavors of Abekas.
The A60 is a digital disk with no NSTC input (that I know of, but I haven't
completely figured the little bugger out yet).  It does indeed look like a
file system to your favorite file transfer protocol.  The A64 and other
versions are NTSC digitizers and twiddlers.  The A60 comes in 25 and 50 second
versions (I've heard rumors of 100 second versions, too, but they must be
hellaciously expensive).  The A64 will store 30 or 60 seconds (I believe) of
captured video.

If you're looking for a digital frame store that lives on the Ethernet, then
the A60 is the beast that you want.

							spl (the p stands for
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