Spent most of today testing and cataloguing these #Quantel CPU cards. These were used in the Quantel Paintbox, HAL, Editbox and Henry from the 1990s. They each have a 68040 @ 33mhz, 64mb RAM, DMA, Inmos Transputer link and much more. The open machine here is a Quantel Paintbox Express i was using as a test platform.

Here's the latest video from the lab. Making a massive network storage drive for all my Quantel files. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bgN0P_g8Uk

Who likes #Acorn #Archimedes stuff? I managed to obtain this huge folder of services manuals for several different models. In the back it even has schematics for the A3000 which unfolds to what must be at least A1 size.

The full Quantel Paintbox art stream recorded this Sunday is now live! If you wanted to see a Paintbox being used live for illustration work, here's a good opportunity.

https://makertube.net/w/8zGMDzTpczkwuuEHdzCUE7

#quantel #paintbox #retrocomputing #art #artstream #livestream

@gilesgoat @karpour @TopazRabbit

Oh well hello Giles, you know where i am if you want to get your machine running. It surely is about time isn't it??

New video! A decade before Adobe #Photoshop, one company made a bespoke computer whose artistic capabilities helped define the look of 80s and 90s TV shows, music videos, and print media. So why don't we call digital photo manipulation "being Paintboxed?"

https://makertube.net/w/kegieNpTzAbT2ukR7EUMTt

Big thanks to DextersTechLab on YouTube (https://youtube.com/@DextersTechLab) and Adrian Wilson (https://quantelpaintbox.com) for their help on this video!

#DigitalArt #Quantel #Paintbox #retrocomputing #art #PeerTube #ArtHistory

This is an excellent and fun feature on the #Quantel Paintbox, what is did for 20 years in the broadcast industry. Giving artists the digital tools they needed in the 80s and 90s...

https://makertube.net/w/kegieNpTzAbT2ukR7EUMTt

Just preparing a vintage Arraid SMD disk emulator to replace the even more vintage 14" hard disk for a friend's Quantel 'classic' Paintbox.

Latest from the lab, DL243 The 5D 'Monster Masher' an Intergraph PC from the late 1990s that renders video effects! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEi5BFdiWI4

The 5D 'Masher', a dual Pentium 3 Windows NT PC dating from 1999 that renders video effects for Quantel machines. It's an absolute tank of a unit. Hardware made by Intergraph!

This lovely looking PCI card is an Intergraph SMT491 Raven DS. Part of the Intergraph StudioZ and provides SDI video, uncompressed digital video at 270mbps. From around 1998/1999. Also used in the 5D Masher, a PC add-on for #Quantel machines to render video clips with effects.

Here we have a Size Control card from the #Quantel DPB-7001 Paintbox with a PAL16R4 removed and in a DuPAL reversing tool ready for analysis!

@philpem that is weird. Response time maybe?

First try at dumping the RAM in the CFT-2100 #analogcable box failed... looks like the extender cable and sniffer board loaded down the CPU bus too much and made it bug out.
Trying again with the logic analyser method... #hacktv

This new 1984 demonstration of the #Quantel DPB-7001 Digital Paint Box has just been found. Filmed in Monte Carlo, nice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap0IiM6GeqM

@philpem now i have had a couple of beers i just want to have a Paintbox to doodle some drawings on!

@philpem https://thecraftybaa.business.site/

@philpem yes, there's real beers on tap, Belgian beers in bottles and a fire downstairs with blues and northern soul sounds playing, perfect!

Currently taking a break from fixing old and broken Quantel machines with a break in Windermere's most quirky pub.

Good morning and a Merry Christmas. Today a picture of a rescued 40 year old EPROM programming device #Diagnostic82. A master with up to four copies, small monitor to list or change content. A #ZilogZ80 CPU works internally, so it aroused my interest. I rescued it from the electronic waste, repaired it and lovingly restored it to its original condition. Incidentally, the type designation "Diagnostic" is particularly "helpful" to find something about it on the Internet.
#RetroComputing #Computermuseum