Posted by Bill Vermillion on 01/11/01 11:36

In article <09rjr1t87nfbjno3m638cknto55trpav1f@4ax.com>,
Roy L. Fuchs <roylfuchs@urfargingicehole.org> wrote:
>On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:05:00 GMT, bv@wjv.com (Bill Vermillion) Gave
>us:

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>> But I think those may have been the only ones -
>>except perhaps the Sony 2000 and Sony 3000 industrial players.

> You THINK a lot, but you are having problems with remembering the
>facts. A field frame memory eventually became the standard, and
>nearly all players had it.

>>The latter were pretty amazing as you'd never lose a picture when
>>you were seeking a disk if it was recorded properly.

> I don't need a primer. Also, my first player was an industrial unit
>from an upright video game. It had a HeNe gas tube laser and full
>optical bench inside it. It had a computer controlled frame access.
>I know all about it. I worked on upright video games at the time.

>> Those were
>>rugged beasts - designed to be used in such places at military
>>tanks.

> Hahahahaha! So funny. They were used by TV broadcasters, satellite
>uplink stations, upright video games, etc.

The first demos I saw from Sony were actually tank trainging
videos. You don't get bouncing around in broadcast, uplinks, video
games [ well maybe with a disgrunted user in a video game].

I also have one of the industrial units.

.....

>>And I first started working the laser disks when I was part of team
>>writing what turned out to be the worlds first electronics parts
>>catalog using Sony 1000 players [with a format incompatible with
>>the Pioneer until the A model from Sony], and IBM PCs using
>>DOS 2.0.

> Oh boy. A database. Good job, I guess. I have a NASA disc with
>images of the entire planet, including the first "google map" type
>database of images from a lear jet at 40,000 feet.

>> That was October 1983.

> Yes, only five or so years after the advent of the CD (consumer
>level). LD lasted a long time, despite what these dopes that want to
>"sell their DVD collection" think about what "killed" what.

When this was done the only two industrial units with direct frame
access via RS232 were the Pioneer 1000 and the Sony 1000.

And the person I was working with/for who had the video production
side had his techs modifying the video cards so we could mix
TV type video with the PC type video. There were no cards to do
that in those days.

>> I made so much money during that
>>time frame I stopped being a recording engineer and moved into
>>computers full-time.
>
> And you still sport memory problems. :-] Or mild Disclexia.

Dylsexia ?

>>The local video production company used to make a lot of training
>>LDs for both military and commercial, and had one of the few units
>>in the South that could handle frame and chapter encoding.

> General Motors uses them for training as well, though now, it is DVD.

The company I was indirectly working for was not quite as large as
GM but it was a Fortune Top 10 - which no longer exists except in
memory of many. Some of the video changes actually received
patents - which were assigned to the parent company - part of the
contracts.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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