[Coco] Re: Let me introduce myself (GW/CoCo BASIC similarities)

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 06 February 2006 04:18, Richard E. Crislip wrote:
>Hello Gene
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>I have the german 060 card so that may be not a problem. I know this
> is an off topic subject for this M/L but is there a site I can go to
> that would have grapics to point those umbrys out?

Not that I'm aware of Richard, although its possible google might 
regurgitate something.

I never posted any pix, just muttered a lot, occasionally online.  Worth 
a try anyway.  I'm baseing my experience on that subject on me being a 
CET, and the CE at wdtv where we had several assorted amiga's churning 
out graphics rendering & what not for about 10 years.  We had one 
german card & 2 of the commie cards IIRC, and once we had replaced the 
68060.library with Thomas Richters version (that took some boot time 
calesthentics I've since forgotten the recipe to), the .de card was 
solid granite till the psu upchucked & we had to rig up an external 
from a pc, with a big molex connector cut into the rear panel.

That in turn left enough room to put in some real cooling fans & another 
HD which it badly needed for its daily workload.  That allowed us to 
buffer a whole commercial on the HD, then play it out to tape in one 
pass as opposed to useing a controller to shoeshine the vtr tape and 
record it one frame at a time.  That was understandably hard on a $7000 
panasonic 7750.  We wrote a cron that allowed us to schedule rendering 
jobs in the overnight hours, or any other time the machine wasn't 
otherwise occupied with on-air, realtime duties.  That time frame was 
about put to bed by the time I retired in mid 2002.  Now we play the 
same stuff directly from hard drives that live in a smaller box than 
any of the amiga's ever was.  And now we do the rendering on Apple 
G5's, virtually in realtime.  Production tools for TV have come a long 
way in 15 years.  Just bring money, it solves everything. :-)

>Regards
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