[QuadList] Ampex ESS and AVA

[C. Park Seward]

I remember talking to Junaid at an NAB when he had a paintbox he had developed. Of course he was sued by Quantel and it never came to market. I don't think he likes lawyers.

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Park

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On Dec 8, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Scott Thomas wrote:

> Bill,
> 
> Did you ever meet Alvy Ray Smith? He wrote the software that became the AVA while at NYIT. He was later one of the founders of Pixar.
> 
> The person who took delivery of the paint software was Junaid Sheikh, who would later go on to start Abekas and Accom.
> I went to the Abekas booth at NAB in 2006 or 7 and asked to meet Junaid. The first question he asked me was "You're not a lawyer are you?".
> 
> I really thought the demo video on the AVA 3 was amazing. I very nearly bought an AVA 3 system from a dealer a few years ago. I've never used one, but always wanted to.
> 
> Scott Thomas
> 
> 
> On Dec 8, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Bill Carpenter wrote:
> 
>> Hi David and everybody.
>> 
>> Yes, the first Still Store was built for CBS, and was called the ESS or the ESS-1. This was a sorta spin off from the AVA, which we had in the late &0's and built 7, + 1 (but that's another story)
>> 
>> Then we built the ESS-2 which would handle real time video. I don't know how many of these were built, but they were Great.
>> 
>> Then in 1983, the ESS-3 came along, was shown @ NAB, and immediately redesigned, to make it more flexible and scalable.
>> 
>> I moved from VTR's to Graphic's at the request of Engineering and Marketing Management. 
>> 
>> I had introduced the VPR-3,and had a solid $ 40 million dollar order backlog before the first unit shipped, so in July of 1983, I moved over as the Product Manager of  Graphics, and re-introduced the redesigned ESS-3 and the new AVA-3 in 1984. 
>> 
>> I had learn about digital video and object based programming and databases, in a big hurry. OBTW along with this came learning how to deal with Graphic Artist's and some interesting union problems.
>>  
>> Bye for now, Bill Carpenter
> 
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