<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yes, all of the Accom assets were transferred to Abekas. The address only shifted a few doors down when Accom failed, and my stock along with it.<div><br></div><div>At NAB 2006 I went to the Abekas booth<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"> to meet <span style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Junaid Sheikh. Not to harass him about my Accom shares, but to meet the guy who worked with Alvy Ray Smith to create the AVA-1.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">When I was introduced to Junaid, he simply asked me, "You're not a lawyer are you?"<br></span><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 14, 2012, at 1:56 AM, Ted Langdell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 13, 2012, at 9:22 PM, Dave Sieg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Recently came across some Accom DDR equipment.<div>Whatever happened to them?<br>Any idea where I might find manuals?<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Dave Sieg<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Here's the history: Abekas founded. Sold. Abekas founders start Accom. It folds, but they buy assets and operate as Abekas.</div><div><a href="http://abekas.com/main/History//page1059.htm">http://abekas.com/main/History//page1059.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>For manuals and other interesting things...</div><div>Click here... <a href="http://abekas.com/product/Legacy_Products//page1037.htm">http://abekas.com/product/Legacy_Products//page1037.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>and then go to the FTP site:</div><div><a href="ftp://ftp.abekas.com">ftp://ftp.abekas.com</a> and look in the Legacy Products folder for the model you're after.</div><div><br></div><div>Some of the documentation goes back to Diaquest, and an Accom DDR to PC file transfer application.</div><div><br></div><div>I have a Diskus lurking in storage, and a manual box with manual from September, 1995 for software version 2.1 at hand. </div><div><br></div><div>Just pulled the entire Diskus folder onto my MacBook Pro... and it appears there's 3.0 and a beta 3.1, so will have some fun at some point having an install. Which should be fun. Floppy drive on the back side of the machine. And it seems to run on IRIX, so getting from Mac w/o floppy to Discus with floppy in ?? format will be interesting.</div><br><div>
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Ted</div><div><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>
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