[QuadList] Feral TBC's--Company history--Contact info

[Ted Langdell]

I remember the Feral brand found background on the company doing a bit of googling.  

Feral Industries, Mission, Kansas produced card based TBCs for Amiga and "in box" units for standalone operation.

http://www.videomaker.com/article/641/3/ lists a number of them.

James Grunder and Associates handled marketing.

Grunder/Feral is now part of KeyWest Technology.

As Don Norwood observed, there was a connection to Hamlet rasterizing scopes.

http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive-BC-YB/2001/G-Technology-BC-YB-2001.pdf
Keywest Technology, lnc., 14563 W. 96th Terr_, Lenexa, KS (66215). 
(913) 492-4666. Fax; (913) 695-7496. Nick Nichols, pres.
Manufacturer of Feral industries digital video effects, video processors 81 line doublers. Hamlet audio 81 video signal measurement, waveform/vectorscopes

David B. Little is the Director of Marketing at KeyWest, and in 1986-97 was a Video Engineer at Grunder:

Per his LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidblittle
I was the U.S. support engineer for CEL Broadcast (UK), Hamlet Video Scopes (UK), and Feral Industries (US).

http://www.keywesttechnology.com/keywest-technology-offices.html

Perhaps he can help?

The company's version of its history is reported here, among other sites:
http://www.keywesttechnology.eu/pdf/Keywest_Technology_Portfolio_b.pdf

Company History
Founded in 1999 with professional television roots stretching back to 1979, Keywest Technology recognized early on that the transition from analog to digital media using Information Technology was helping to propel an unprecedented change in communica- tions and that an entirely new group of communicators were emerging.

To help bridge the gap from the past to this emerging future, Keywest Technology acquired Grunder Display Group in 1999, which provided the core digital technology that Keywest still uses to this day. 

Even though Grunder company dabbled in television products manufactured under the Feral Industries name, Grunder Display Group engineered and developed the majority of its digital video knowledge through government contracting.

Our next technology asset acquisition occurred in early 2001 with the purchase of Video Data Systems. This innovative company based in Hauppauge, NY, provided Keywest the fundamental IT technology to move from a hardware-centered company to a software-based mindset. Soon after this acquisition, we launched the MediaXtreme.

Today, Keywest Technology offers a robust lineup of powerful digital signage software, players and information channel generators that is used across a broad communications landscape, including corporate and private information channel applications, CATV revenue-generators, such as cable classified advertising channels, civilian government and military command channels, education, public access, hospitality and retail applications, to name a few.

Hope this helps.

Ted

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On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:06 AM, Tim Stoffel wrote:

> Does anyone know anything about 'Feral' brand products?
> 
> Tim Stoffel
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> Sorry for the interruption but this is the only place I know where to ask.
> 
> Can any of you video guys come up with an operating manual or service 
> manual for a "Feral C-100" time base corrector, and/or a "Feral 
> Effect 422" time base corrector?  Xerox copy, JPG scan, ANYTHING?
> 
> I can get them both to work, but the Feral Effect 422 forgets 
> everything it ever knew about how I have it set when I turn the power 
> off, and I'd like to know if there is a way to program an EEPROM (or 
> whatever, if it's got one) to save the way I want it set.
> 
> I haven't found a thing on the Internet -- EXCEPT that anybody who'd 
> name a company 'Feral' has rocks in his head because a Google search 
> for anything with 'Feral' in it produces a mountain pile of junk 
> about 'feral cats'!!!!
> 
> Please reply directly to kurt_greske at eee.org or on the Backroom list 
> to avoid off topic traffic here.
> 
> Thanks much,
> Kurt
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Ted Langdell
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