[QuadList] OT: Whatever happened to Accom?--Answers inside and link to FTP site

[Dave Sieg]

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
>
> Ted Langdell
> Secretary
>
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>
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