Re: [Emc-developers] Calling INT 15 from a comp?

[Steve S. <ste...@ne...>]

Love those images of geekdom from the old days.

Thankfully no one ever caught me on camera!

My history includes some of the systems that sold
movies in motels using banks of VCR players.

Steve Stallings


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Steinkuehler [mailto:ch...@st...] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 9:17 PM
> To: EMC developers
> Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Calling INT 15 from a comp?
> 
> On 1/15/2014 8:29 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
> > On 01/15/2014 12:08 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>> Jon
> >> Videolan was yours?  I bow in respect, that was great!
> > No, no no!  VideoLan put my inferior product out of business!
> 
> Since we're sharing video production war stories, I did the analog
> hardware design and PCB layout for an Amiga product called the Video
> Toaster back in the day (late 1980's).  A very much younger version of
> me is also the guy in a lab coat pulling out his hair in the 
> Revolution
> promo video (skip to 2:55):
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb3TYQ3TcYA
> 
> Gene: I love all of your stories from the video trenches...now just
> imaging having to do all that with PAL and their wacky 25 Hz 
> sub-carrier
> offset.  It still makes my head hurt thinking about it.
> 
> I still do video hardware design, but these days it's mostly in FPGA
> hardware, shoveling digital data across a PCIe bus.  Not like the old
> days of matched cable lengths for genlocking a studio!
> 
> -- 
> Charles Steinkuehler
> ch...@st...
> 
>