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  1. Article: 5179 of comp.graphics.packages.lightwave
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  4. From: bdupras@bert.eecs.uic.edu (TheTruth)
  5. Newsgroups: comp.graphics.packages.lightwave
  6. Subject: Re: NewTek unveils Windows Toaster box at NAB
  7. Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 04:36:49 GMT
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  16. In article <3nb33l$jrp@Mars.mcs.com>, johnc@MCS.COM (John Crookshank) wrote:
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  18.  
  19. [snip]
  20.  
  21. >Let's say you were waiting for the President to come out on the balcony 
  22. >and make a statement. Since you don't know exactly WHEN he's gonna do 
  23. >that, you'd leave your camera running, to be sure and get it. With a 
  24. >direct-to-disk setup, your hard drive would fill up quickly if you just 
  25. >left it running.
  26. >
  27. >With the Ikegami setup, you flipped a switch, and it would continuously
  28. >record over the same couple of tracks on the drive, over and over. When
  29. >what you wanted to save happened, you flipped the switch back again, and
  30. >the recorder would then just continue with normal recording.
  31. >
  32.  
  33. Very interesting idea, but it sounds like hell on the hard drive.  Was there 
  34. any talk about going to some other type of computer readable digital media?  
  35. High speed optical?  Flash RAM?  Anything?
  36.  
  37. Sorry - I'll stop the computer speak now.
  38. Brian
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