[QuadList] Accom

Mon May 14 12:15:36 CDT 2012

Well remember when the A-42 stillstore and the A-52 DVE (moving boxes) were must have items in any sports mobile unit. Then the A-53 (new and improved) which did lots more then just move boxes around. Still have a Deveous on the MU I'm running now (NCP/NEP Supershooter 4).

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   1. Re: OT: Whatever happened to Accom?--Answers inside and	link
      to FTP site (David Crosthwait)

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Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 09:45:41 -0700
From: David Crosthwait <david at dcvideo.com>
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Subject: Re: [QuadList] OT: Whatever happened to Accom?--Answers
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Dave,

I used the A42 still store on sports remotes and the A62 DDR for layering. Later in editing life, I used the RTD 4224 along with an Axial 2020 and an early Axial 4:2:2 switcher in a D-1 edit bay. Still later, I worked worked with a Dveous. All of these products were first rate. Still have a Axial 3000 in the tape room for some functions.

I've had a couple of occasions to sit down with Luigi Gallo at his home in the bay area who was instrumental in the development of the Accom noise reducer and earlier at Ampex, the ADO. He is quite the design engineer.

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On May 14, 2012, at 5:14 AM, Dave Sieg wrote:

> Interesting!
> When I worked at Omnibus we had a Picture Element Limited (PEL) DDR and I had to deal with Isaac Dukhovitch.
> I understood a lot of that technology or those people ended up at Abekas.
> I didn't realize Abekas was still around...
> Thanks for the info!
> Dave
> 
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:05 AM, Scott Thomas <scottgfx at mac.com> wrote:
> Yes, all of the Accom assets were transferred to Abekas. The address only shifted a few doors down when Accom failed, and my stock along with it.
> 
> At NAB 2006 I went to the Abekas booth to meet Junaid Sheikh. Not to harass him about my Accom shares, but to meet the guy who worked with Alvy Ray Smith to create the AVA-1.
> 
> When I was introduced to Junaid, he simply asked me, "You're not a lawyer are you?"
> 
> 
> On May 14, 2012, at 1:56 AM, Ted Langdell wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On May 13, 2012, at 9:22 PM, Dave Sieg wrote:
>> 
>>> Recently came across some Accom DDR equipment.
>>> Whatever happened to them?
>>> Any idea where I might find manuals?
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Dave Sieg
>> 
>> 
>> Here's the history:  Abekas founded. Sold. Abekas founders start Accom. It folds, but they buy assets and operate as Abekas.
>> http://abekas.com/main/History//page1059.htm
>> 
>> For manuals and other interesting things...
>> Click here... http://abekas.com/product/Legacy_Products//page1037.htm
>> 
>> and then go to the FTP site:
>> ftp://ftp.abekas.com and look in the Legacy Products folder for the model you're after.
>> 
>> Some of the documentation goes back to Diaquest, and an Accom DDR to PC file transfer application.
>> 
>> I have a Diskus lurking in storage, and a manual box with manual from September, 1995 for software version 2.1 at hand. 
>> 
>> Just pulled the entire Diskus folder onto my MacBook Pro... and it appears there's 3.0 and a beta 3.1, so will have some fun at some point having an install.  Which should be fun.  Floppy drive on the back side of the machine.  And it seems to run on IRIX, so getting from Mac w/o floppy to Discus with floppy in ?? format will be interesting.
>> 
>> Ted
>> 
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