[geeks] Pegasos PPC ATX board

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Michael Schiller <schiller at agrijag.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 06:52 AM, William S. wrote:
> 
> > I was looking at a discussion about the
> > Pegasus PPC ATX board (mentioned by Josh
> > last month) and ran across this link to
> > a video about it.
> >
> > http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/%7Eaminet/pix/mpg/Pegasos.mpg
> >
> > I have not watched it yet but some of you might want
> > to take a look also.
> 
> After watching that video, that machine is the last one I'd want to 
> buy! I'm sorry, but these folks are supposed to be familiar with the 
> Amiga line of computers, the first ones that were seriously into
> video production, they *should* know how to sync video to the
> computer monitor so you can actually see what they're trying to
> show you!

I wonder how you can sync a hand-held video camera to an independent
vido source (the computer)? I think the purpose of the video was to
pacify either investors or potential customers that the machine is
complete and operational by some measure. I think they wanted to prove
that the box they were showing you was the box that was booting - and
if they had a direct video feed into a video recorder, that would be a
hard sell, IMHO.

> And if the overall quality of the video production is any indication
> of the quality of the company's products, again, I'd stay FAR away
> from it!

Again, I view this more as a piece of internal evidence/proof the
machine boots/runs as-is. I do not view this as any possible indicator
how good their engineering is... For that I'd like front and back shots
of the MB, showing how many/how few jumpers are needed to overcome
mistakes in the MB from the Fab...


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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