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5 Power Macs configured by AVID
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Nice, assuming Media Composer? Those don't look like the Avid keyboards though.
Those are indeed normal extended Apple keyboards. I don't know where the AVID keyboards went to. The music studio where these came from had to shut down because the landlord suddenly ended the contract. These older Macs were in storage together with a lot of audio and video stuff. Sadly, i don't have the space to put away about 20 external 19" chassis (of that 10x are Digidesign 888) or i would have taken them as well. There is still so much stuff that has to be gotten rid of at the end of this month (til monday) else it goes into the bin. I saw five Sony PVM 20" Trinitron monitors in one of the many rooms. The owner is very much fully invested to rescue as much as possible but finding a time-slot to pick up the stuff is very hard. I had to leave work early to make the trip today since he is preoccupied on most days....
Nice haul.
Part 2 is already in planning
You’re gonna have to rent that second apartment again!
Amazing great rescue!
I have made enough space in one of the celler rooms.
Question: Whatever will I do with the stuff?!
Answer: There is no real goal for the items yet. I think that I will sell off whatever is interesting to someone and give away everything else locally.
Nice haul. Funny isn't it, stuff that was once worth tens of thousands of dollars, now reduced to stuff that most people wouldn't want. The 9600 machines alone would've been worth a lot when new. These are also of the era where they're just a bit behind the G3/G4 era to still be used for work. Some people are still using G4s for audio production. My wild guess is that the oldest video production systems still in use are Mac Pro-based ones.
I know of a cinema which still uses an 888 as a standalone AES/EBU to Analogue audio adaptor. I had to make a special set of cables since the fancy DCP projector has the "standard" 2xRJ45 audio output, and the Sound Processor (A Dolby CP500, which interestingly enough is a 68k system) has a DB25 input connector. A tangled mess of cables for sure, but it worked well enough that it's still going strong.
It's impressive how well these things were built and I would be surprised if there isn't going to be remaining demand for them for quite some time.
It's impressive how well these things were built and I would be surprised if there isn't going to be remaining demand for them for quite some time.
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