On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > And then came the video toaster, which was often used to replace very > expensive chiron machines.
What's a chiron machine? > Babylon 5, Max Headroom, and others, used it for special effects. IIRC, the original BattleTech arcade VR video game system (the one where you sit in a full-scale simulated cockpit of an imaginary mecha) used an Amiga to power the graphics for each node, with some kind of proprietary interconnect or network. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleTech_Centers -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
