Leaving the hobby

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun May 18 17:11:00 2003

> I was going over some old cables, and found a strange card in them.
>
> It is marked C.A.V.I. interface and has a sticker that reads Cavri Systems.

Maybe 'Constant Angular Velocity Interactive'? This sounds like a video
disk player interface

> There is a 1980 date etched on the board, and under the sticker it looks
> like it says BCD Associates. There are seven chips on board, 2
> DM7416N's a DM74LS14N, 2 Magnecraft W107DIP-5's, a Magnecraft W118DIP-5,
> and a rockwell 6520-11. There are 6 outputs: Monitor V, Monitor A, Audio
> Ch1 and 2, Player V and Computer V, and a nasty HRS rectangular locking plug.

Monitor video, monitor audio, Audio inputs from the videodisk player (2
channels), player video and computer video. I would guess the rectangular
connector is for the remote control signals to the player (to select
individual frames, etc).

-tony
Received on Sun May 18 2003 - 17:11:00 BST