Patrick Finnegan wrote:
There's a AT&T/Pixel Machines model 964d 'video thing' down at
university
salvage, and I was wondering if anyone had any information on them.
Yes, but it is in german ;-)
It
appears to have been produced in 1989 by an offshoot of AT&T called "Pixel
Machines". Using google, the only result I can get that matches "Pixel
Machines" and 964 or 964d is a thesis of some sort, which doesn't have a
whole lot of useful information on the beast. As far as I can tell, it's
some sort of redering/raytracing 'thing', and from its outputs, it appears
like it might output NTSC video.
It is a very interesting thing. Someking of a multiprocessor system
for rendering pictures. A lot of research was doen on this thing.
And few nice algorithms were found ...
I'm not sure yet if I want to bother lugging it up
here - it's about
2ft x 2ft x 1ft in size, and looks like it might weigh as much as a small
car.
Would be bad to loose something like this to the dumpster,
but paying shipping, ...
What do you think, how heavy it really is ?
cheers