In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:


The company that does much of the on screen graphics for ITV game shows
like the Vault and Millionaire still uses Acorn RPCs with their own
interfaces. Or did last time I worked on one of these.

Reasons given - it works. Is reliable. And not the same chance of having
things nicked - as would be the case if it were posh PC laptops. Perhaps
they'll change when HDTV comes along.

You mean they'll get an Iyonix? :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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Hi,

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
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In article ,
Pooh Bear wrote:
I actually wote a basic computer graphics program on a BBC B that a
small film company used. It had an external colour look-up adaptor to
remap the output to up to 16 of 4096 pre-selected colurs ( when the IBM
PC still had 4 colours including black) and used a Calcomp digitiser for
drawing input. A very nice Barco monitor was good enough to film the
results directly from the screen.

The company that does much of the on screen graphics for ITV game shows
like the Vault and Millionaire still uses Acorn RPCs with their own
interfaces. Or did last time I worked on one of these.

That rings a bell - I got a phone call from some contractors when
Millionaire was starting asking about some weird display equipment to
drive the displays in studio. We put a spec. together and only then did
they mention that it all had to run on Acorn. We said "okay, but the
software will take six months". I never heard back :-)


Reasons given - it works. Is reliable. And not the same chance of having
things nicked - as would be the case if it were posh PC laptops. Perhaps
they'll change when HDTV comes along.

It's starting, but it's sloowww. The BBC guys are asking me about linux
(so they can try to port all their old Silicon Graphics stuff). Most of
the small production guys are asking about PC based HD editing and
rendering hardware based around Adobe Premiere (yikes!) and Avid.

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Glenn Booth

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 09:17:31 +0000, Jim Lesurf wrote:

In article , mick
wrote:
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:44:45 +1100, Tat Chan wrote:


There was actually a commercial amp - the Neoteric 60 - which, I
suspect, used the Stereo 60 and Z30 components. I'd love to find out for
certain.

I am not sure, but I doubt that the Neoteric used the Stereo 60/Z30.

The Neoteric was *tiny* - particularly when you take the claimed power
ratings, etc, into account. It looks superb in the literature, but the one
I looked at when it was at an audio show was:

1) Tiny

2) Controls didn't line up and were a mess

3) Not plugged in or working


I actually saw one "in the flesh" as it were, but I wasn't allowed to pull
the lid off to have a look!

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