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

[C. Park Seward]

I've known Junaid for over 20 years. Not only did he work on the AVA, but he was product manager for the ADO.

When he started Abekas, one of his first products was a DVE (A52). At Accom, he attempted to bring a Paintbox clone to market but was stopped by Quantel and Adobe.

Abekas created one of the first compositing hard drive systems (A42). They would take drives and wire all the heads in parallel in order to get the required bandwidth.

The Accom Axial editor was the finest on-line editor ever made. Mostly ex-Ampex engineers on that project.

Last month at the NAB, Junaid took me around the booth and gave me a demo on his hard drive system that does EVS functions but better and cheaper.

Phil Bennet is the genius behind most of their products. But after talking about his Accom noise reducer (DIE-422), Junaid told me that was their first product and he wrote the software.

Junaid also has a great sense of humor and plays chess like a demon.

Best,
Park

C. Park Seward
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On May 14, 2012, at 12:05 AM, Scott Thomas 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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