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I'm not sure what the earlier Chiron units used for a CPU (I think I read somewhere that the Chiron II used the DataMate-70 minicomputer), but I'm pretty sure t

by LocalH 5y ago

I'm not sure what the earlier Chiron units used for a CPU (I think I read somewhere that the Chiron II used the DataMate-70 minicomputer), but I'm pretty sure that Chyron's iNFiNiT! series used 68k CPUs (possibly a 68060 in the higher end units?). I think I've said this on HN before, but professional character generators are woefully underdocumented. In a lot of ways, they were at the pinnacle of computing power (generating quality NTSC imagery is much more easier said than done). I'd love to see something like an emulated Datavision D-3000 one day. Modern computers can push around video well enough that such things could actually be shoehorned into a modern workflow (make the emulator into an NLE plugin that is scriptable and you'd be much of the way there).

ct520 5y ago
Had to look up Datavision D-3000 in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt-gN-cIpxs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt-gN-cIpxs Crazy!
jhallenworld 5y ago
I think it was the Chyron VP-1 / VP-2: https://archive.org/details/chyron-vp-1-manual/page/n57/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/chyron-vp-1-manual/page/n57/mode... http://www.oldvcr.tv/collection/index.html?Mode=View&Brand=Chyron&Model=VP-2&Ref=1 http://www.oldvcr.tv/collection/index.html?Mode=View&Brand=C... But not much RAM- maybe it was Scribe, but I see both big Intel and Moto chips in it: https://www.ebay.com/itm/265204467651?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item3dbf6b07c3:g:GegAAOSw35ZdNjw-&amdata=enc%3AAQAGAAAA4AEUGf%2B4m73zMft9zQ%2BF9ZiKpFrXs330%2BsiNqka7abhCGFjYUcffU18BqhD2eNlE8HUQi1rdLCKFAZznmYMmSMVApiXvtBClwwPe5cgdfbN4hKXICNVyC2lW%2BWR%2FgRE5eSrwnBhTYBb7Ol1yrM70eoOCag6aPpSkDPHYQJOHoteKuqpuc4S7DgmPekN9yU7eniB%2FKSLQlYffTU9c%2FBhK%2BAldrql0YQOL1ct%2FySZ%2FI3Hq4%2Fj8lUjpuO5KROA%2BARUKzIGUqSPBFX5Zo0fl4%2BPVYZR5uBTf9YQaCM7QY0timlj0%7Ctkp%3ABFBMtvef9_Vf https://www.ebay.com/itm/265204467651?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&has... https://www.ebay.com/itm/234061007923?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item367f1f8c33:g:YZgAAOSw5TtdNjyw&amdata=enc%3AAQAGAAAA4F51CekrnKbdEbpktyrfn2yONGROJuQSwADaGYUnOvqMYYO77G%2BoxW08be%2FSgAjOcsc5vJxf%2FQBCcr4hj7mabDU4dStMZm8vE0Gaf0gNCLDOi7mq2RvQWnhHaW72IfBeJbEGfmkPzdG0cHoMLOiKXGJ0bU3pUVRSIu7wLkRW6lKmqe%2Fqcp1J698SL7HYTqnPZ3FbBHKLKjQ0DuKCd6VMr%2BR%2FbhP0zqVmhh5Bmi42FmpQBi7iKCzkcDEdaUCu3h2nGt3thcRaLHcnjpfYnXleD5%2BOp6YyFJJIyGHeuwTLHhUs%7Ctkp%3ABFBM4uXF9_Vf https://www.ebay.com/itm/234061007923?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&has...
- LocalH 5y ago
  I see an 020/881 combination in that Scribe. I also see the Intel chip but can't read it either. My guess is it's a 386

by LocalH 5y ago

ct520 5y ago

Had to look up Datavision D-3000 in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt-gN-cIpxs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt-gN-cIpxs Crazy!

jhallenworld 5y ago

I think it was the Chyron VP-1 / VP-2: https://archive.org/details/chyron-vp-1-manual/page/n57/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/chyron-vp-1-manual/page/n57/mode... http://www.oldvcr.tv/collection/index.html?Mode=View&Brand=Chyron&Model=VP-2&Ref=1 http://www.oldvcr.tv/collection/index.html?Mode=View&Brand=C... But not much RAM- maybe it was Scribe, but I see both big Intel and Moto chips in it: https://www.ebay.com/itm/265204467651?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item3dbf6b07c3:g:GegAAOSw35ZdNjw-&amdata=enc%3AAQAGAAAA4AEUGf%2B4m73zMft9zQ%2BF9ZiKpFrXs330%2BsiNqka7abhCGFjYUcffU18BqhD2eNlE8HUQi1rdLCKFAZznmYMmSMVApiXvtBClwwPe5cgdfbN4hKXICNVyC2lW%2BWR%2FgRE5eSrwnBhTYBb7Ol1yrM70eoOCag6aPpSkDPHYQJOHoteKuqpuc4S7DgmPekN9yU7eniB%2FKSLQlYffTU9c%2FBhK%2BAldrql0YQOL1ct%2FySZ%2FI3Hq4%2Fj8lUjpuO5KROA%2BARUKzIGUqSPBFX5Zo0fl4%2BPVYZR5uBTf9YQaCM7QY0timlj0%7Ctkp%3ABFBMtvef9_Vf https://www.ebay.com/itm/265204467651?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&has... https://www.ebay.com/itm/234061007923?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item367f1f8c33:g:YZgAAOSw5TtdNjyw&amdata=enc%3AAQAGAAAA4F51CekrnKbdEbpktyrfn2yONGROJuQSwADaGYUnOvqMYYO77G%2BoxW08be%2FSgAjOcsc5vJxf%2FQBCcr4hj7mabDU4dStMZm8vE0Gaf0gNCLDOi7mq2RvQWnhHaW72IfBeJbEGfmkPzdG0cHoMLOiKXGJ0bU3pUVRSIu7wLkRW6lKmqe%2Fqcp1J698SL7HYTqnPZ3FbBHKLKjQ0DuKCd6VMr%2BR%2FbhP0zqVmhh5Bmi42FmpQBi7iKCzkcDEdaUCu3h2nGt3thcRaLHcnjpfYnXleD5%2BOp6YyFJJIyGHeuwTLHhUs%7Ctkp%3ABFBM4uXF9_Vf https://www.ebay.com/itm/234061007923?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&has...

LocalH 5y ago
I see an 020/881 combination in that Scribe. I also see the Intel chip but can't read it either. My guess is it's a 386