Kevin Stebleton
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Bob:
I asked only to compare where we are at today versus “way back when”.
I was having a conversation with a college age kid, born 4 years after the ADO first appeared, and was telling him how AMAZING that a computer was capable of keeping up with TV signals – who’d have thought that 3.58 Mhz would become relatively pokey, back when A/D and D/A converters were tricky above a few hundred Khz, and PC computers were running 8088’s or 80286 processors.
Of course, software back then was written in assembler. And if you had a modem, chances were that you participated in a BBS somehow.
Aaah – how things have changed. And today, it’s getting tougher to find specs on some of the “beginning” technology. No PDF’s from the day, I guess.
Kevin
Kevin Stebleton
HD 24p Cinestyle Engineer
Metro Detroit Area -
Trying to make an impression with old gear is tough. Some of the new gear is so flexible, so powerful, that trying to implement old gear makes no sense.
Old gear is bigger, heavier, takes more rack space, more electrical power, and every watt it generates must be taken out by the AC system.
Old gear may have comb filter inputs, or all sorts of other limitations that show up, just like an old BVP-5 had aliasing to beat the band.
New gear, with digital inputs, transcoding, and all sorts of other features make installation simple, keep weight down, and give the AC unit (and generator?) a break.
Oh – did I mention some switchers have a bazillion effects built in, and in 2 RU can run circles around the GVG-110? My old 110 required me to check it over every time I powered it up, as caps or coils or something would have failed. I run a sat truck, and only occasionally used the beast, but having to PM it every time I turned it on got OLD.
I do think that having an engineer layout the system, suggest patch panels and DA’s, and set levels throughout the system is a wise investment.
Now, is anyone looking at this thread anymore? I was actually hunting down ancient ADO specs from 1981, i.e. cost, capacity, processing speed, etc, but sofar haven’t found that.
Good luck.
Kevin Stebleton
HD 24p Cinestyle Engineer
Metro Detroit Area