[Tig] Jack Calaway passed this weekend

[Ted Langdell]

My friend Tim Stoffel (of Quadruplex Park VTR Museum) reports on the  
Yahoo Old VTR's list that edit system designer and edit software  
engineer Jack Callaway passed this weekend.

I suspect a lot of folks on the TIG knew or knew of him.

Jack operated Software Systems/Sierra Madre
http://www.sssm.com/

and hosted a virtual Museum of Early Video Editing Equipment and  
Techniques on the site:
http://www.sssm.com/editing/museum/index.html

He was responsible for the Calaway series of PC based editors, and  
had a hand in developing other equipment.

Among other things that Jack developed was the AVRS, which the Museum  
describes as the "first film to video tape edit controller. It was  
3:2 aware, and insured that all edits on the tape occurred between  
film frames. AVRS controlled a Rank telecine and two VTR's via CMX  
compatible interface's."

It was succeeded by the Time Logic Controller, which lives on as a  
DaVinci Systems product.

Read more about it here:
http://www.sssm.com/editing/museum/specials/specials.html

...in an article by Jim Lindelien, who was one of TLC's developers.

I hope the museum website stays up. Its a great resource and archive  
for things that otherwise may be lost.

Perhaps someone ought to back up the pages?

Ted.

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