Vinyl Data- Classic Computers / Indie music tricks crossover

[Pete Turnbull]

On 02/10/2008 17:03, Philip Pemberton wrote:

> Let me see if I can remember this correctly..
> 
> The Domesday system was a Master Turbo with a SCSI card, wired up to a A 
> Philips VP412 Laserdisc player that had been modified to add a SCSI 
> interface and a chroma-keyed genlock. The Master could boot off the LD, 
> load the software, then play back a video clip, still image or what have 
> you.
> 
> Then there were a few arcade games that used Laserdiscs for cutscenes 
> and such, but I suspect those are off-topic for cc{talk,tech}.

Yes, and various CAL systems using laserdiscs.  For example, in the 
early-to-mid 1980s Jaguar Cars issued every authorised dealer/service 
agent with a training system consisting of an IBM AT with a genlocked 
video card, a Pioneer laservision player, a high-res Sony monitor, and a 
bunch of laserdiscs that explained all the service and maintenance 
procedures.

The police used a training system involving laserdiscs playing various 
scenarios for training firearms officers with live ammunition (I got to 
play with one once, at Saville's, outside York, around 1987).  The video 
images were projected onto a screen which consisted of two layers of 
paper on huge rolls, and the player stopped when the microphones picked 
up the sound of the shot(s).  A detector then located the bullet hole in 
the screen, and after assessment, the two rolls were wound a fraction of 
an inch in opposite directions to obscure the hole and prepare for the 
next scenario.  Now that's interactive video :-)

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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