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Lucasfilm EditDroid & SoundDroid brochures

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kjaer
From Seattle, WA
Who joined May 7, 2008, 7:47 p.m.
Wrote the following at June 2, 2013, 8:49 p.m...
Got some brochures and a FAQ from a DroidWorks 4/85 press kit up on the site. Not super info-dense, and not SGI-related, but cool anyway; these systems were driven by early Suns. On the basis of the high-res color SunView display shown in the EditDroid brochure, I think it must have been a VME Sun-2, rather than a Multibus one (the earlier models were supposedly driven by 100Us) since the only multibus color framebuffer for Sun (the cgone) has a display area of only 640x480 pixels (the framebuffer itself is 640x512).

Was there an earlier computerized editing suite for film or video?

http://www.typewritten.org/Articles/#DroidWorks
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jdboyd
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Wrote the following at June 13, 2013, 3:18 p.m...
Wow, the quality of that first PDF is stunning. Thank you for posting this.
ramq
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Wrote the following at June 13, 2013, 10:35 p.m...
Wonderful bits of history. And fascinating.
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edikat
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Wrote the following at June 18, 2013, 11:54 a.m...
many thanks - very interesting - and agreed the pdf's are superb!
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