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<DIV><FONT size=2 PTSIZE="10">does anyone remember a system that used a DEC-
pdp-8E in it? it had a diablo 2 or 5 meg hard drive on it as
well.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 PTSIZE="10">thanks Ed#.<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 2/22/2010 1:28:23 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
david@dcvideo.com writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>George
and Don,<BR><BR>When I worked at NBC Burbank, they too had an early version of
a CMX <BR>300 on the PDP-11 (punch tape). Thanks for reminding me of
"the <BR>Bootstrap program" and the he "Absolute Loader". Four VR
2000A's and <BR>an HS 200. The other CMX systems (in a TR 600A room and
a BVH 1000 <BR>room) were 340's, later upgraded to 3400's and
3600's.<BR><BR>David Crosthwait<BR>DC
Video<BR>www.dcvideo.com<BR><BR><BR>Quoting
georgenann@aol.com:<BR><BR>><BR>> Hi Don,<BR>><BR>> Once again I
am reminded of CBS's depressing method of "Recycling" <BR>>
it's old and often historic equipment. I recall the first
CMX <BR>> system at CBS. It was referred to as "The ABC
Room" as it used <BR>> VTR'S A,B and C. It used a
PDP11-05 and a big interface. I <BR>> remember the
interface, it was well documented as I had to modify <BR>> one
of the functions of it and it was surprisingly easy.<BR>><BR>> We had to
toggle in the "Bootstrap" program manually. Then a tape
<BR>> called the "Absolute Loader" then the program tape. Later on as
the <BR>> program got bigger, the pile of tape got bigger and
would <BR>> frequently fall on the floor which accounted for a
lot of overtime.<BR>><BR>> I don't remember the model number, but 300
sounds about right. I <BR>> think 400 was the model which
had it's own built in computer, not <BR>> the DEC, also had a
"Decrwiter" which was rarely used. Also along <BR>> came
the "BIG" floppy drives.<BR>><BR>> The last one was the "Omni1000" which
is still in use in at least <BR>> one of the CBS weekly
shows.<BR>><BR>> At any rate, all of this stuff, manuals, computers,
I2's, etc. all <BR>> went in the dumpster. I suspect that
when the last Omni is replaced <BR>> they will all go the same
way.<BR>><BR>> We had one strike in my 42 years at CBS and the main
reason was CMX. <BR>> Apparently the "Light Pen" was
going to put us all out of work <BR>> because the directors
would be able to do all their own editing. I <BR>> never
saw the "Light Pen" anywhere in CBS.<BR>><BR>> There are 2 fotos I know
of, one is in DennyD1's collection and it's <BR>> file name
ends in CMX ABC. I have almost the same foto with the
<BR>> same editor, Hank Wolf who passed away many years ago, he was
the <BR>> first CMX editor we had. I will be glad to send
it to you, but I <BR>> don't think I can send it on this
circuit, will have to do it to <BR>> your e-mail address.
I tried sending a couple fotos before and <BR>> received
a nastygrams about them.<BR>><BR>> One thing caught my eye, you
mentioned the Ampex "Ace" editor as <BR>> being a PDP11
powered. I never saw one of them, the only Ampex <BR>>
"Ace" editor I came in contact with was at NSA and I remember it
as <BR>> a Dos based "Box" of some sort. I only used it
breifly and that was <BR>> the only time I ever edited
anything. It was hooked up to a few <BR>>
BVW-75's.<BR>><BR>> 73,<BR>><BR>> George
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