<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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.<br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Dec 8, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Scott Thomas wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">Bill,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>The person who took delivery of the paint software was Junaid Sheikh, who would later go on to start Abekas and Accom.</div><div>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?".</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Scott Thomas</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Dec 8, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Bill Carpenter wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; ">Hi David and everybody.<br><br>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)<br><br>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.<br><br>Then in 1983, the ESS-3 came along, was shown @ NAB, and immediately redesigned, to make it more flexible and scalable.<br><br>I moved from VTR's to Graphic's at the request of Engineering and Marketing Management.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>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.<br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <br>Bye for now, Bill Carpenter<br></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></div></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>Please trim posts to relevant info when replying!<br>Send QuadList list posts to <a href="mailto:QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com">QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com</a><br>Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:<br><a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com">http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com</a></blockquote></div><br></body></html>