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hardware

    26-Jan-95 09:48:57
Sb: #2234-hardware
Fm: Timothy Liebe 73373,3347
To: HAMISH WOOD 100522,1106
Hamish: >I need to buy a new pc to upload, edit download, etc I need to find out what cards I need how much memory, etc. Also want to have cd-rom for kids attached.< Well, the CD-ROM part's easy, at least <g>! Any 486 computer w/a double-speed CD-ROM internal drive will do you nicely, esp. if it has 4 megs or more of RAM and a SVGA drive (hard *not* to find anymore…). I think for your "PC to upload, edit, download, etc.", it would help if you defined what you wanted to do, exactly. Are you looking to actually "dump" full-motion video into your computer, or do you just need to grab selected frames? And why, out of curiosity, aren't you just using videotape? Digitized video takes up a *ton* of hard disk space, after all… I'd like to hear a bit more about what you'd like to do–and I'll bet other people could advise you better if they knew that, too. Best, Tim Liebe