On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Curt Vendel wrote:
> Sure, its a Mindset M1001 System. 80186 processor, BitBltr custom
> graphics processor, custom expansion bus. IBM compatible, incredible
> graphics for its time (1983) The company was founded by Roger
> Baderscher, the former head of Atari's Home Computer Division
> (1981-1982) the machine was partially conceived while at Atari and then
> Baderscher left along with several Atari marketing and engineering
> people. They designed a phenomenal machine, but lacked capital to stay
> afloat. JVC bought the company and ended up using all of it internally
> and Mindset disappeared from the public's eye and the technology was
> used up till the early 90's, with revisions to the system original on
> the M1001 design, then a later design the M3000 which was specifically a
> rack mounted video processing station. The key software product on the
> Mindset that fully exploited its high end graphics was the Luminere
> software packages.
What does the M3000 look like? Did it have the Mindset name or JVC? I'm
wondering if it would be possible to find one.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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