How old are you anyway??
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JustAnOrdinaryPanda
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Vlad G Pohnert
- Joined: Tue Jan 02, 2001 2:29 pm
- Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Re: cool!
The capture component sat in a metal box. The circuit board was done with a method called wire rapping (you used a special tool to rap very thin wire onto specal long pined chip seats. The unit had about 12 chips and hundreds of wires. I then soldered wires to a TV set (the first one I burned out since I shorted it out (First time I saw a 12" long arc!). The interface into the computer was done by making a home made circuit baord (using acide to etch a copper plated board.... This was actually my grade 11 electronics project!SS5_Majin_Bebi wrote:wow, man that was a long time ago. so what exactly did you make this capture card of yours from. Things have advanced a tad haven't theyno man, i think thats cool. i remember when i used to make things from scratch. nuthin impressive, just wired a few circuit boards together and got something that made various sounds. Hey, comeon i was only 6!!
It took me 6 months to make it and then It was a bitch to make it work right.... Sure learned a lot though.....
Keep in mind that at that time, the Apple II computer was the most grahicallly advanced system. The PC was nothing more than an IBM machine using DOS 1.0 (and a 1/2 dozen or so programs for it!) You pretty much had to program everything for ot yourself.....
Vlad
Vlad
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NicholasDWolfwood
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SS5_Majin_Bebi
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Anime Jedi
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FirestormXIII
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Vlad G Pohnert
- Joined: Tue Jan 02, 2001 2:29 pm
- Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
sure... It's amazing how your view on thing will change as you get older... Do you figure I should be spending my time in Bingo halls rather than doing something constructive live video editing? Or maybe I should just move into a nursing home already and get it over with!JustAnOrdinaryPanda wrote:God... if I'm 37 and still browsing forums, somebody shoot me.
Vlad
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Vlad G Pohnert
- Joined: Tue Jan 02, 2001 2:29 pm
- Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1979 to 1988, but then who's counting.... BTW, just for comparison, I bought my Apple II back in 1981. The computer came with 16K (yes Kilobyte) of ram and nothing else. I used a B&W tv and a tape drive (before I got a disk drive). All this for about $1500 US (think about that with inflation!). When I got a floppy drive, it was the 5-1/2 type and each side of the floppy could hold about 60K worth of Data.SS5_Majin_Bebi wrote:yeah i remember the Apple II, we had one at one point. They were pretty cool, and they could run some alright games too. Man, how long ago was that....
Now a days, the cheapest calculator is better than that!!!!!
Vlad
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JustAnOrdinaryPanda
- Joined: Mon Nov 18, 2002 4:39 pm
- Location: London, England
Heh, sorry about that. I don't know you, it was lack of tact. Just when I hear that I can't help but think of 'comic book guy'.Vlad G Pohnert wrote:sure... It's amazing how your view on thing will change as you get older... Do you figure I should be spending my time in Bingo halls rather than doing something constructive live video editing? Or maybe I should just move into a nursing home already and get it over with!JustAnOrdinaryPanda wrote:God... if I'm 37 and still browsing forums, somebody shoot me.
Vlad
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