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From: jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (unknown)
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Subject: Re: Transfer Personal IRIS images to VCR
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Date: 19 Nov 89 19:59:02 GMT
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In-reply-to: ams@gauss.Princeton.EDU's message of 19 Nov 89 15:08:02 GMT


ams@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.  It stores sequential frames on disk, and 
	then it will write them out to a VCR. [ ...]
	It should also be noted that this device cannot do
	real time recording.

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.

Jim Helman
Department of Applied Physics			P.O. Box 10494
Stanford University				Stanford, CA 94309
(jim@thrush.stanford.edu) 			(415) 723-4940