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LSI-11 Computer Interface to Video Synthesis System: Final Report to NEA: Hardware and Software Research Results for project. Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts

Authors
Donald McArthur; Walter Wright
Editor
Sherry Miller Hocking
Publisher
Experimental Television Center Ltd.
Place
Binghamton, New York
Type
Manuscript, text or essay
Subjects
Texts by Author
ETC archive
ETC1366

Abstract

LSI-11 Computer Interface to Video Synthesis System: Final Report to NEA: Hardware and Software Research Results for project. Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.

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LSI-11 Computer Interface to Video Synthesis System: Final Report to NEA: Hardware and Software Research Results for project. 1977 Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System Hardware and Software Research Results for project supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts

with Introduction by Sherry Miller-Hocking, papers by Donald McArthur: "A Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System- An Orientation to Hardware Architecture", "A Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System- A Paper presented at the 'Design/Electronic Arts (Buffalo, New York)' conference in March 1977"; Walter Wright: "A Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System- Software", "A Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System- A Paper presented at the "Design/Electronic Arts' conference in March 1977"- with question and answer transcription includes Tom Dewitt, George Chaikin, Laurie Spiegel.

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Donald McArthur; Walter Wright. LSI-11 Computer Interface to Video Synthesis System: Final Report to NEA: Hardware and Software Research Results for project. Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. Experimental Television Center Ltd. 1977.

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Final report (1977) on an LSI-11 computer interface to a video synthesis system; documents hardware and software research results for a project supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. Includes an introduction by Sherry Miller-Hocking and papers by Donald McArthur (An Orientation to Hardware Architecture; a paper presented at the Design/Electronic Arts conference, Buffalo, March 1977) and Walter Wright (Software; a paper presented at the Design/Electronic Arts conference, March 1977); question-and-answer transcription includes Tom Dewitt, George Chaikin and Laurie Spiegel.

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ETC1366

Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System Hardware and Software Research Results for project supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts with Introduction by Sherry Miller-Hocking, papers by Donald McArthur: "A Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System- An Orientation to Hardware Architecture", "A Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System- A Paper presented at the 'Design/Electronic Arts (Buffalo, New York)' conference in March 1977"; Walter Wright: "A Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System- Software", "A Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System- A Paper presented at the "Design/Electronic Arts' conference in March 1977"- with question and answer transcription includes Tom Dewitt, George Chaikin, Laurie Spiegel. Bound in red binder.

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