@DextersTechLab

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Saving the Quantel legacy one luma sample at a time, blundering with electronics, computers & other weird things, sometimes fixing stuff.
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DextersTechLabDec 3, 2023
Spent most of today testing and cataloguing these #Quantel CPU cards. These were used in the Quantel Paintbox, HAL, Editbox and Henry from the 1990s. They each have a 68040 @ 33mhz, 64mb RAM, DMA, Inmos Transputer link and much more. The open machine here is a Quantel Paintbox Express i was using as a test platform.
DextersTechLabJul 2, 2023
Just preparing a vintage Arraid SMD disk emulator to replace the even more vintage 14" hard disk for a friend's Quantel 'classic' Paintbox.
DextersTechLabFeb 25, 2023
The 5D 'Masher', a dual Pentium 3 Windows NT PC dating from 1999 that renders video effects for Quantel machines. It's an absolute tank of a unit. Hardware made by Intergraph!
DextersTechLabFeb 21, 2023
This lovely looking PCI card is an Intergraph SMT491 Raven DS. Part of the Intergraph StudioZ and provides SDI video, uncompressed digital video at 270mbps. From around 1998/1999. Also used in the 5D Masher, a PC add-on for #Quantel machines to render video clips with effects.
DextersTechLabFeb 7, 2023
Here we have a Size Control card from the #Quantel DPB-7001 Paintbox with a PAL16R4 removed and in a DuPAL reversing tool ready for analysis!
DextersTechLabJan 8, 2023
Currently taking a break from fixing old and broken Quantel machines with a break in Windermere's most quirky pub.
DextersTechLabDec 26, 2022
SOIC clip on a PLCC seems to work 🧐
DextersTechLabDec 3, 2022
We recently discovered this image of the #Quantel DVM-8000 'Mirage' rack along with technical information, it's expanded our knowledge of this machine several fold. in 1984 Mirage could manipulate two channels of video in 3D in real time allowing it's use in live TV broadcasts.
DextersTechLabNov 23, 2022
Hardware accelerated Photo Shop?🤔
DextersTechLabNov 21, 2022

In 1990 Quantel developed the High Definition Paintbox running at 1035i, can you imagine HD digital painting in 1990? We have the opportunity to get one of these rare machines but it needs help, lots of financial help to get it, it's beyond €10,000, can the community help save this machine?

We are thinking some kind of crowd funded thing...