4 Dec
2002
4 Dec
'02
5:15 a.m.
On Dec 3, 11:46, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
>I don't know what exactly they did, but I do
know that several people
who
>have working laservision players offered to lend
one. It's just a
Philips
>laservision player, as still used by video buffs,
but with a SCSI
>interface.
>
>Of course, you'd need software to make sense of the directory
structure,
so
>perhaps the "emulation" part was
something to run the Video Filing
System
>developed for the BBC Micro, or some equivalent.
If they had the player, why not use an original BBC
Micro to
read things?
I have no idea. Unless they needed something more sophisticated or
powerful to extract all the data (a collection of still images, video,
sounds, cartographic data, geophysical data, text, etc) along with the
indexing, in such a way as to preserve the data, its layout, and the
cross-referencing. Normal use wouldn't do that.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York