RE: Playing can you top that (was Re: #5 on the list of LowStressJobs)

["Al Geist" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>]

Way back when I was working as a field producer/scriptwriter, the Fairbanks
(AK) company I worked for had the same type of video setup editor used by
the "big" studios in Hollywood. I can't remember the name of the editor, but
it was command driven and used an old Commodore 128 for titles and three
really expensive Sony video tape machines. Everything ran off a DEC
PDP-11/34 computer. It took, on average, eight hours per finish script
minute, but the output was fantastic. We ended up winning several awards for
our work. For print, I used PageMaker 2.0 to design and produce the
"camera-ready-copy" on a IBM AT with 1M of RAM. It wasn't the fastest
production line in the world, but it was faster than sending everything
across town to the newspaper to have it typeset and run through a waxer.

I agree with Sarah however, in that a lot of time was spent waiting for
things to happen....and there were a number of times when the computer was
shut off during an overnight rendering by someone who couldn't read "DO NOT
TURN OFF!!!!"

Today, my laptop has more power than my old desktop and rendering, evening
Solidworks 3D Models, happens in minutes versus hours. I am now way behind
on my Sci-FI magazines.

Al Geist
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