Truevision, Inc. was a manufacturer of digital television processing accessory boards for personal computer computers. It was founded by Cathleen Asch, Carl Calabria, Joseph Haaf, Bryan Hunt, Brad Pillow, Joe Shepard and Jeff Walters and others when AT & T split off their electronic photography and Imaging Center ( EPICenter ) in 1987. EPICenter was founded by Alan Wlasuk, Carl Calabria, Bryan Hunt, Brad Pillow, Joe Shepard and Jeff Walters. Located in Indianapolis, Indiana, Truevision was by and by acquired by monitor and graphics tease godhead RasterOps in Santa Clara, California. RasterOps took on the Truevision identify and retained the Indianapolis engineering team which continued producing ever more advanced products until 1999 when the caller was last acquired by its biggest rival, Pinnacle Systems. Pinnacle Systems was late acquired by Avid Technology, who initially used the AT-Vista when they were a two-person startup company. The administrative hierarchy of the caller developed into a triumvirate soon after its origin. Joseph Haaf became VP of Sales and Marketing, Carl Calabria was VP of engineering, Cathleen Asch was VP of Administration and Accounting. Each had equal vote exponent in corporate decisions-making. The company was privately held by employees until purchased by RasterOps in 1992. Beginning as AT & T EPICenter with still-image frame grabber cards like the ICB ( double capture board ), Truevision Inc. went on to pioneer the desktop digital video editing industry with the introduction of the TARGA videographics calling card in 1987. Its engineers developed brand raw ASICs that were finally potent adequate to perform realtime operations on bouncy video microscopy, which culminated in the TARGA 2000 digital video recording processing dining table in 1998. These HUB chips operated with a memory-centric architecture that simplified the undertaking of third-party developers to integrate TARGA boards into their products. Most noteworthy were japanese companies Sony and Matsushita ( Panasonic ), who used TARGA in the heart of several of their video editing workstations. multiple observation methods were supported, and the range of applications has been far increased.
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Still Frame Video Teleconferencing Developed by Bryan Hunt, this was a product using the ICB for hush frame video teleconference. RA-RAM
Row addressable DRAM. The growth at AT & T that allowed the development of the VDA, ICB and Targa cards in the days before DRAM was fast enough for high pixel depth television inning buffer applications. VIDI/O Workbench A card and associated hardware that allowed for complex video recording wave form and vectorscope analysis and test traffic pattern generation.
Fresco One moral force Truevision development was software, which peaked with the hire of several software engineers to create programs that would show off the AT-Vista hardware to its largest advantage. These “ utilities ” were much handed to 3rd party software development companies to append or enhance existent applications. however, in 1988, a in full fleshed paint program was developed internally under the working name of Fresco by authors David Cook, Walter Wright, William Romanowski and Shawn Steiner. The complex software had capabilities which far exceeded many of the current paint packages of the day and in some cases had features which are inactive matchless. Fresco was never released .
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