This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Be aware that receiving Internet email on CompuServe costs money– CI$ charges "postage due" for receiving outside email. Wierd. — David Schachter
Mr. Berney asks: > […] how come my 1960 cheve [sic] only cost me $2,000 and my 1986 Ford > cost $17,000? At the pre-inauguration Clinton economic summit, the CEO of Ford Motor Company said that over $1,000 of the cost of each car Ford sells goes to pay health…
I had a similar problem– the Toaster 3.0 software would get through the first ten disks and then crash with a useless error message. It was quite repeatable. I was trying to install the software on an Amiga 3000, onto a brand new SCSI disk. The Newtek support folks had…
That may have affected a production I finished two weeks ago; I was wondering why different frame stores had vertical offsets and assumed I had screwed up. This is a Toaster 4000 (which, by the way, has a substantial amount of crosstalk between the switcher screen and the program output…
I'll back up the install to another hard disk. — David Schachter
No, they didn't tell me what the problem was. I surely hope they fix it too!
Well, let me say this about that: 40-umpteen diskettes, compressed? I don't think so. I'll copy it to another disk partition, possibly on another disk. That ought to do. Meanwhile, I'm looking at a used tape drive; if it is SCSI and I can find Amiga software for it, backups…
What modern technological industry accepts a one percent failure rate? US integrated circuit manufacturers had AQLs around that level in the mid 1970's, until the Japanese vendors entered the market with ten times better quality levels. AQLs for ICs are now in the parts-per-million level. US car manufacturers had a…
I tried the same thing, I think: I used some 68040 software from PPI to turn off (I think) the 68040's caching and bursting. Also, per Newtek's suggestion, I reformatted the partition with a lower max transfer size (128KB instead of very, very big). No difference; it still dies at…
SunRize Tech. Support
Message #74640
Yesterday, I mentioned a problem installing the Toaster software and in passing, I knocked some trivial glitches with the SunRize AD-516. Falling asleep, it struck me that it was only fair to mention the superb support I got from SunRize while having installation problems with their board and software. While…
Pish tosh and twaddle. I worked at Daisy Systems in the early 1980s and our disk duplicators would duplicate each disk and then read it back, to make sure the data actually made it on the disk. We had a problem, once, with a bad disk: it was because the…
Why send black burst, rather than composite sync, to Toaster Input 1? Come to think of it, what's the difference? Lack of color burst or something? — David "Color Me Ignorant" Schachter
Is there a way to get a similar MoveSSP speedup with a PPI 68040 accelerator in an Amiga 3000? I inherited this machine and it came sans documentation…. Thanks. — David Schachter
What kind of cookies work best when using the Video Toaster? — David Schachter
Why does ToasterPaint have this problem with leaving black pixels? I just read a column in a magazine called "Video Toaster User" (nice magazine; you should subscribe to it) with a tip on how to handle this problem, but I don't even understand why the problem occurs. Or is it…
I successfully sent my first animation to the EVO-9650 two weeks ago, using the hex codes in a fax from Newtek. The fax also recommended setting the inter-frame delay (in the Record dialog) to twenty seconds. That seemed a bit hokey to me. The VTR takes about twenty seconds to…
Toaster Install Problem
Message #74564
Machine: Amiga 3000, 8 MB ZIP memory, PPI 68040 board, SunRize AD-516, Toaster 4000, GVP ioExtender serial/parallel port board The Toaster 4000 software was installed on my second hard disk. I replaced the hard disk with a bigger device and tried to install the Toaster software from floppy. It gets…
Plug for Y/C Plus Inc.
Message #74563
I read the article, but I'm still confused. (I was born that way; it saves a lot of time….) The Y/C Plus and DPS PCA aren't supposed to "filter out noise." They are supposed to provide a precise encoder for combining Y and C into composite color, and a precise…
Plug for Y/C Plus Inc.
Message #74562
No, hold it, that doesn't make sense, it just moves the "problem" to the TBC. Either: A. My TBC has a perfectly good encoder/decoder or B. My TBC has a crummy encoder/decoder. If (A) is true, how can the Y/C Plus or DPS PCA help, unless they have an even…
Thanks for the reply. I was talking to a friend yesterday and we got confused about the Y/C Plus and similar products: how can they improve the signal, when the Toaster just takes composite anyway? Do they bypass some decoding/encoding circuitry in the Toaster's input/output hardware?
And another thing– -40 degree weather?! (Fahrenheit or Centigrade [snicker, snicker]) Consumer camcorders are not meant to be used at such extremes. Neither are industrial cameras, for that matter. Keep the machine warm until the last minute and use it from within a weather enclosure if possible. (Sony sells bright…
To reduce dropout problems with Hi8: 1. Don't use Sony tape. 2. Use Fuji Doublecoat (about $7) or Super Doublecoat (about $16) tapes. 3. Don't use Sony tape. 4. Keep your camcorder clean. — Seal ports where dust gets in, if shooting in a dusty environment — Run the cleaning…
How does Y/C Plus differ from the DPS Personal Component Adaptor? It is a bit more expensive and I'm wondering if the added cost translates into Goodness or nothing.