This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Kevin: How do you connect the dongles inside the machines? The ones that I've seen connect to the parallel port and the printer cable connects to it. There is certainly plenty of room inside the machine for the dongles, I am just wondering how you wire it. I guess a…
James: A lot of the workstation systems have their own CPU IDs. That wouldn't be a bad way to handle it if you could work out a way to deal with CPU upgrades. In fact, our SGI machines have the processor ID in ROM somewhere else in the system, so…
Kevin: Well, I've got this CPU board that sits in a slot on a passive backplane. The IceCap is so tall (and looks so topheavy) that it just looks like it should want to fall off the board! I've had stranger things happen. I had a tape backup drive go…
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#3D Studio R2 LOCKED?
Message #10714
Bruce: I don't agree with companies like Autodesk putting too much heat on the people that sell ways to avoid dongles (or copy protection…) These tools, which do, I admit, often get used to make illegal copies also have legitimate uses and provide part of the counterweight to balance the…
Kevin: I just thought of something else. How do you keep the IceCap/Coprocessor in the socket in a tower machine. It seems to me that it would tend to wander out of a vertical socket. I can just see a new generation of error message: Weitek 1101 error – coprocessor…
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Flic to VHS
Message #10254
Gregg: My copy of Animator Pro came with a VESA driver that works just fine in 640 X 480 X 8 mode. If I remember right, the Metheus VGA card uses the Chips & Technology VA chipset, and there is a C&T VESA driver with ANI Pro. There is a…
Alec: I'm not the Principal Investigator on this experiment, but I've done the image processing and animation for it. What they do is melt an aluminum slug (about 1" X 1" X 1/2") on the aircraft in flight. When they get to their restricted airspace ( you'll see why the…
Alec: I've been reading your thread and agree with you. The thing that I find to me most interesting is the "sliding scale" that people use to judge video quality. I've had to include some video that was shot on S-VHS with an X-ray system onboard an aircraft in flight,…
Must be nice. The NASA Select people in Huntsville might have known about it being shown on CNN (if it really was) but all **I** heard about was the "Today in Space" show. About half of the time that I spent on the animation was in figuring how to make…
How did you find out that your stuff would be on "Science & Tech Week"? I did a crash animation job for use on NASA Select's "Today in Space" during the last shuttle mission and was told by somebody that they saw it on CNN. Nobody that **I** knew ever…
video equipment
Message #6394
Kevin: Got it. Thanks Chris
Ian: It looked like AutoShade 1 used painter's algorithm when it generated the screens, so you had to artificially divide the image into bands to send to the printer. The new version **seems** to go top down, which would simplify things considerably. If they could guarentee a top down scan…
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