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From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
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Subject: Toaster
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>From sbcs!cmcl2!rutgers!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!nstn.ns.ca!cs.dal.ca!ug.cs.dal.ca!graham Sat Apr 27 01:22:51 EDT 1991
>Article: 11599 of comp.sys.mac.misc
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>From: graham@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael Graham)
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>Subject: Re: Amiga Video Toaster for the MAC
>Message-ID: <1991Apr23.031929.16324@cs.dal.ca>
>Date: 23 Apr 91 03:19:29 GMT
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>In article <5967@pbhyb.PacBell.COM> rkmossm@PacBell.COM (Richard Mossman) writes:
>>
>>What I would really like to see is someone come out with a direct connect 
>>Mac device that does Toaster-level stuff with a built in NTSC conversion
>>for $2,000.  That would make my beloved Mac into a consumer level video 
>>machine for a reasonable price.  Reasonable, albeit not Cheap.
>
> Luckily I'm a Mac owner. An Amiga owner would laugh his head off at this
>idea. Do you have any idea of what the toaster can do? If not try and catch
>Tod Rundgren's latest video. It *easily* rivals what I have seen from Pixar
>and SGI. It could easily do the Lifesaver ad.
> I don't have all the specs on this product, but similar Mac boards look like
>a JOKE when compared with the toaster.
> Remember - I'm a Mac owner, not an Amiga fanatic.
>
>mike
>-- 
>Michael Graham          |"Say you were going to sing in a club tomorrow -
>graham@ug.cs.dal.ca     | what kind of stuff would you sing?" 
>mgraham@ac.dal.ca       |"Something nice...something very, very nice...a song - graham@iris1.ucis.dal.ca| a tune, a ballad perhaps" - Diane Keaton on Letterman
>






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    David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481  AMIGA  DDD-MEN  Tomas Arce 
           Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :)

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