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| 4168.1 | Hard drive controller? | SALEM::LEIMBERGER | | Wed Oct 03 1990 08:09 | 14 |
| Your cost tends to rule out any 030 cards. However the fact that
you already have your moniter helps. This brings us to the argument,
"should I buy a 2000HD,or a 2000,with a GVP or other 3rd party drive".
I think your money will go farther with a 2000,and the GVP card that
holds 8 meg of memory. You will need 5 meg for the type of work you
are planning on doing. Some say 3 meg would be enough,but I can tell
you from experiance that 3meg will not allow you to build the 24bit
data file used by THE ART DEPARTMENT. I recommend you invest in this
program when you get your 2000. GVP has made great progress recently,
and offer drivers for all SCSI equiptment. I feel CBM has fallen behind
with the 2000HD. It's ok,but it doesen't seem to go the extra yard.
When it comes to drive size if your looking at 80meg 100 meg will
only cost 50-90 dollars more.
bill
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| 4168.2 | | NSSG::SULLIVAN | Steven E. Sullivan | Wed Oct 03 1990 12:21 | 22 |
| RE: .1
> Some say 3 meg would be enough,but I can tell
> you from experiance that 3meg will not allow you to build the 24bit
> data file used by THE ART DEPARTMENT.
I seriously question this. I have had rare if any problems with TAD in
3 MB, even while running Digipaint at the same time. What other programs
or memory uses are happening on your system? Mine was running fastrom
with setcpu and had almost 300K tied up in disk buffers.
A 24 bit deep bitmap only uses 921600 bytes for a 640X400 image. For a
746X484 overscan it is 1083192 bytes. For a 1024X1024 super bitmap it is
3145728 bytes.
Thus, for display sized pictures 3 meg of RAM should be fine. When you
go to super duper sized pictures it gets a lot more dicey. For the main
work of TAD (Conversion to IFF and manipulation of IFF pictures) 3 meg
is fine. Of course, memory is much like money - you need more over time
and you can never have enough.
-SES
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| 4168.3 | What about an A3000? | CADSYS::MURATORI | Rich Muratori, SEG/CAD, HLO2 | Wed Oct 03 1990 13:07 | 2 |
| Omnitek is selling the A3000-25/40 with 5 Megs of memory, without
monitor, for $2995.
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| 4168.4 | clarification | DECWET::DAVIS | You always get what you deserve | Wed Oct 03 1990 13:10 | 8 |
| I have 3meg on my A500 and some of my Turbo Silver scenes will not
render.(runs out of memory and crashes) I have to take them to a
larger machine. These scenes are only 12 bits deep! For complex
worlds, in Silver at least, it seems 5meg is a minimum requirement.
md
p.s. re: .0 I have a 200meg conner drive on my A500 so a disk drive
is not a consideration.(now)
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| 4168.5 | pics scanned at 200dpi | SALEM::LEIMBERGER | | Wed Oct 03 1990 13:13 | 8 |
| Steve,
I have some pictures I scanned in at 200dpi with the jx100 that
give me the cannot load 24 bit data message when I load the pic. The
picture will display,but you cannot process it without the 24 bit data.
Once I have reduced it down to size of the standard hi res I can move
it to a 3 meg system however. When scanned at 200 dpi the image is
large.
bill
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| 4168.6 | | NSSG::SULLIVAN | Steven E. Sullivan | Wed Oct 03 1990 13:47 | 15 |
| RE: .5
Bill
> When scanned at 200 dpi the image is large.
I think we agree...(from my reply in .2)
> Thus, for display sized pictures 3 meg of RAM should be fine.
For display sized pictures (most of what I used TAD for) 3 meg would
be fine. For larger pictures (like the jx100) it can use almost as much
RAM as you can throw at it.
-SES
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