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- I think the most important thing he needs to do is make sur it can take
- atleast 1 full lenght PCI card (2 is better for the future) and that
- might be very hard to find since most computers that I have seen are
- limitted in this fashion. If you want my tip: BUILD YOUR OWN. It is
- cheaper and you get what you want and only what you want. I built a nice
- Pentium 120mhz computer (upgradable mother board, 2 meg burst mode. 32
- megs ram, 4 meg GFX board, 16 bit sound) and attached CD-rom,keyboard,
- mouse and floppy and a few harddrives from other computers and it cost me
- less than $2000 total for a kick-ass machine. I have 3 full-length PCi
- slots, 18 drive bays!
-
- On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Tim Krego wrote:
-
- > At 12:58 PM 2/28/96 -0500, you wrote:
- > >I've been to the DPS Perception Web Site and think I'll buy one. What is the
- > >bare minimum machine configuration that I can get away with to lay down good
- > >quality 30 - 60 sec NTSC animations? Realize that LW rendering will probably
- > >be done on another machine so I don't need blazing rendering speed. I just
- > >want the PVR to work well. Can I get away with a 100MHz 486 or do I really
- > >need a pentium?
- >
- > If you can find a 486 with PCI slots, there are not to many. I'd go with a
- > 75MHz Pentium, it will cost a little more than a 486.
- >
- > >And let me get this straight. The PVR creates a video clip
- > >that it can play back in real-time from the scsi disk and output's the video
- > >stream to s-Video, BetaCam or Composite?
- >
- > That is correct. It is a digital disk recorder. Playback is realtime 60
- > fields per second. Excellent quality.
- >
- >
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