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<DIV>Bill</DIV>
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<DIV>She was known as Vital Nancy. As we all know sex sells to men.
And the industry has been historically dominated by men. She knew how to
put herself in the spotlight.</DIV>
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<DIV>I had one switcher and a Squeezoom from them. For the extra cost of
the Grass Valley, you got a switcher that would work forever. The used
market reflected the value of Grass. I would never recommend a Vital
to anyone. They were that poor. Great ideas but poor
execution.</DIV>
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<DIV>Chris Hill</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 2/28/2011 1:20:17 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
wcarpen107@yahoo.com writes:</DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top>Hey Folks,<BR><BR>I guess most of you are too young to
remember how the products from Gainsville were demostrated at NAB. (I
went 32 years straight, starting in 1967)<BR><BR>A beautiful girl, and
in a great dress and NOBODY ever looked at the picture or transition
quality.<BR><BR>I learned many years later that she was the daughter of
a great chief engineer in Florida, and she was married to a guy in the
industry who was once an Ampex pre-A format sub dealer and later became
a manufacturer of editors.<BR><BR>I also worked with a field engineer
who said when he worked for the company, he used a Squezze Zoom power
supply as an Arc Welder!!<BR><BR>Bill Carpenter<BR><BR>PS: Let's see if
anyone can remember why Nubar ran the company from
Atlanta?<BR><BR><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 2/27/11, rabruner@aol.com
<I><rabruner@aol.com></I></B> wrote:<BR>
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rabruner@aol.com <rabruner@aol.com><BR>Subject: Re: [QuadList]
Vital... Gainesville<BR>To: quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com<BR>Date:
Sunday, February 27, 2011, 9:13 PM<BR><BR>
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<DIV>I both maintained and operated the VIX-114 switcher and the
SqueeZoom. The problem Vital had was rushing things into
production. That was also the advantage they gained in the
market place over GVG. They would be out a year earlier with all
the bells and whistles at the expense of getting the bugs out of the
device. For Instance, they were on the market first with 'clock
wipes' and 'ghoul wipes.' The clock wipe generator was really
four 90 degree quadrant wipes that took an infinity of pots to set up
so that all the quadrants had a common center, etc. The 114
switcher was used by CBS to produce shows like Sonny and Cher that
featured a lot of those kinds of tricky transitions. It was used
in Nashville to produce Hee Haw for the same reason. The 114 had
a lot of potential as a switcher, but it suffered from a lack of
development to knock the rough edges off. It just wouldn't stay
adjusted.</DIV>
<DIV> The SqueeZoom was also let out of the box
before it was ready in order to get it onto the market before GVG
could integrate the NEC EFlex into their switchers. It suffered
from a lot of design shortcomings, not the least of which was the
quality of the circuit boards as has been mentioned here. The
problems with the boards in all products, I have been told by someone
who worked at Vital at the time, was twofold. They put the first
artwork into production and then tried to clean it up after the fact
by blowing out incorrect traces and using rework wire. The
second problem was that they made large runs of boards for all
products and then didn't de flux them properly because the machine
they used to clean the boards was malfunctioning and no one knew
it. So flux was left on the boards, washed into the IC
sockets, etc. In a period of a few months, the
residue corroded away traces, and fouled the contacts in all the
IC sockets. I spent hours removing IC sockets from SqueeZoom
boards and replacing them with Augat machined pin IC sockets. If you
pried the plastic tops off the IC sockets, the pins and board
underneath were covered with a black residue. </DIV>
<DIV> The squeezoom was under designed in a lot of
ways. Due to a lack of CPU horsepower, it cut a lot of
computational corners. The motion was mostly 8 bit
functions. There were 128 steps of squeeze and 128 steps of
zoom, or 256 steps from infinity to off the screen. As long as you
flew things up pretty quickly, it looked o.k., but anything stately
had a definite 'steppiness.' The color interpolation was
troublesome too. as I recall each channel had 8 y memory boards, 5 r-y
memory boards and 3 b-y. So trying to zoom an object in a
blue screen always produced strange edges, especially at small
sizes. Then Ampex put the ADO on the market and all this became
academic. </DIV>
<DIV>Bob Bruner </DIV>
<DIV>W9TAJ<BR></DIV>
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wrote:<BR>> <BR>> I never had the "pleasure" of using a Vital.
Did use some ISI (Gainesville) <BR>product, and also American Data
(worst-construction-ever. From Alabama, maybe).<BR>> <BR>> Chuck
Reti<BR>> WV8A<BR>> Detroit MIl<BR></TT></DIV></DIV>
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