Started out on S-VHS then on over to Betcam SP. worked at SMU taping football games and practices. Did some crash editing. Oh, what fun cleaning the heads on the tape decks. There was one deck that really did eject the tape. When you pressed oh brother did it ever. Shot the tape about a foot or so. Learned to stand back or get hit by a flying tape. Those were the days.
Was introduced to Avid on the pizza box variety of Mac, not sure of the model. School had to ban laptops as people were stealing memory out of the computers. Also, learned how to edit on open reel audio tape. Not fun.