[Cin] offtopic: Quantel boxes

[Phyllis Smith]

Listed at a quarter of a million dollars in 1981!  First time I have ever
watched an entire 1 hour video because it was interestingly and well done.

First half -- WHY?!? I would have given up on the hardware when 9 out 38
spinning disks failed.
And WHY did he not wear some kind of static guard when pulling out disks
and corroded PALC chips?
Then WHY did he pack it away with the card in the wrong slot and worked for
weeks and weeks to troubleshoot?

Second half -- I can not understand WHY users complain about CinGG being
hard to use as this demoed software has to be learned as just about
everything else does too.
And WHY would you use the "average" feature as it just blurs stuff?

Mystery Solved -- he wanted it for its artistic features and probably just
because he could get it working.
And because it was probably only the second or third one in the world that
was actually working anymore.

On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 4:41 PM Andrew Randrianasulu via Cin <
cin at lists.cinelerra-gg.org> wrote:

>
>
> пн, 17 окт. 2022 г., 05:10 Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu at gmail.com>:
>
>> Because I monitor mame WIP thread I saw some news about Quantel Paintbox
>> emulation in MAME (0) and then I randomly followed some links to other
>> Quantel systems
>>
>> Like HAL (basically like hardware compositor)
>>
>> http://dexterslab2013.blogspot.com/2018/03/quantel-hal-video-compositing-system.html?m=1
>>
>> 99 layers of SD images or video, up to 15 min storage on 20 disk array!
>>
>>
>> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4k15hpeGzBA
>>
>> if you have half of hour you can watch this demo from 1997. Biggest thing
>> so far for me? We are free to use old-fashioned optical effects in front of
>> real camera too :)
>>
>> (0) -
>> https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=120292&page=10
>>
>
>
>
> update on restoring one of those boxes
>
> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_TpEVfY07Js
> "DL250 Quantel HAL & Dylan Restored & Working!"
>
> all those 20 mechanical scsi drives were replaced by scsi emulators ...
> and .... it worked!
>
> Not completely realtime, but interestingly fast.
>
> vid itself is 1h long.
>
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