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Gareth Knight
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An Amiga Summer Holiday!

Amiga Bus- Click to enlarge
Sir Cliff would have been proud! In the summer of 1988 Commodore took the Amiga name on the road and offered its services at several major sporting events across Europe. The Amiga Tele Vision was packed within a 13 ton Mercedes truck to provide a mobile television production studio to interested parties. On board, the computer area was represented by nine Commodore AT 40/40 boxes, and eight Amiga 2000 systems. Of these, three systems had genlock capabilities, and two were equipped with video digitizers. All the computers were connected over an hardware-addressable v24 network.
The television area comprises of two U-Matic high band recorders and a C-Tape-Machine plus a video mixer and 10-channel sound mixer. These two areas were combined with the aid of an effects generator from Pinnacle. This was plugged into a 286 and used a bridge card to digitize, enhance, and develop footage. This would allow the producer to combine three 'graphic generator' (the name given to these devices at the time) signals into one stream and output the data to tape. The Amiga 2000's were used as slave devices to create logos and captions. This was an automated process that allowed users' of the 286 machines to assign the Amigas with various tasks and leave it to work on its own. Finally the media lab was fitted with two modems to allow technicians to contact Commodore's Innsbruck programming centre. Commodore may not have promoted the Amigas but they certainly demonstrated how it could be used to accomplish real-world tasks!

Larger versions can be viewed by clicking on the image.

Volleyball Championship in Belguim The brain centre of operations - inside the bus

Computer Equipment Used on the Bus

Computer Equipment
Nine Commodore AT 40/40's, eight Commodore Amiga 2000's. SK network under Novell, v24 network link to television environment.

Television Equipment
Magnetic tape machine, 2 U-Matic high band video recorders, connections for three cameras, video mixer, 10 channel sound mixer. 5 combined text and sound generators (Aston 3 & 4, Pinnacle digital effects system with 200 video image storage capacity, video plug board with 7x30 serial interfaces for linking built-in devices.
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