Great video as always and a rewarding watch. I remember watching the ‘Painting With Light’ series as a kid and thinking how powerful it seemed compared to my then 8 bit BBC Micro! A long time ago, in 1987 as a member of the school film club, we went on a behind the scenes visit to Granada Liverpool studios at the Albert Dock. It was a full informal half day and the chief studio lighting guy (who our teacher was mates with) showed us around, from the control room to the back rooms. In their media room they had a Paintbox set up with a number of overhead static cameras for digitising images. We were allowed to have a play about, digitising shots of our hands, and drawing some stuff. Great fun, I remember the media guy saying that the hardware they had access to was some of the best broadcast tech and also very expensive. Our film club had 2 VHS Panasonic cameras so we were genuinely amazed at the gear Granada used. A few years later when I moved South I very nearly applied for a software dev role at Quantel Newbury. Keep up the good work 👍🏻

I just love how much hardware is in these things. It must have been an awesome challenge for the hardware designers, something I would have loved to be involved in. The 68349 has a CPU32+ processor core which has an instruction set similar to the 68020, but with improved performance that is closer to the 68030.

I used a Henry, Editbox and Domino in my early years as an editor. This video brings back many good memories when I was using Quantel machines. Good luck on the restoration.

Would absolutely kill to see a MIRAGE setup turn up, absolutely ADORE the effects banks on it (i think that's the right word, could be wrong)

It's quite mindblowing that I can do everything this machine does and more, using free software on consumer hardware these days! X

I still can't quite get over the sheer brute-force engineering of gear from back then. ie. throw as much DRAM and custom chips at the problem. lol Hi, btw. lol

The big selling point of the Editbox was its networking ability. When I worked at NBC Sports they had Editbox terminals all networked throughout the facility to cut sports highlite reels and such.

This massive machine with hundreds of chips, now all possible with a hand-held device that runs off a battery. Amazing. Too bad its in such beat-up shape!

Most excellent. Thanks

The optical cable hanging inside seemed to be conviently close to where the high speed network board should be.... Maybe it had one and someone swiped it? Get that with the vintage Minicomputers and Telecoms gear I collect, complete apart from one part or option

Love this old stuff, so much lovely silicon! I use hot soapy water and baking soda to clean corroded boards. Might be a good place to start for the pcb cleanup.

I remember we were having a lot of drives failing on our Henry (1996 ish?). I mentioned to the engineer that the hard drives Quantel were charging £600 each for were only £150 retail ( they were just formatted differently) Not only that Quantel only gave a 1 year warranty whereas Seagate gave a 5 year warranty. What a scam.

Given the corrosion on other parts, and the extreme amount of sticky and potentially conductive dust, it really would've made a ton of sense to take the PSU apart before trying to power it. Otherwise you're just kinda making more work for yourself than you need to.. :x Good luck and do your best with the restoration! Very cool and extremely unique project.

So many cards. Awesome machine. I look forward to seeing more of it.

You could try to recover the data off that failing hard drive. By using a third party service. Because you have extra drives that are identical that they can remove the platters out of the dead drive and put into a live drive and recover your data. Just a thought.

Interesting to see the Buddy disk array. So much smaller in footprint/form factor than the Dylan box (which would seem to be as big as the WHOLE EditBox itself).

When there were 5 of these in Britain, I had installed 3 of them.

Blimey, you can really see why these were so expensive! Quite apart from the amount of expensive circuitry crammed into it there must've been shedloads of NRE, and they can't have been cranking them out by the thousand... Many thanks for the tour! (New to the channel, insta-subscribe.)

My god, so many FPGAs. I can certainly see why this thing was so damn expensive. All that custom "hardware" would be extremely expensive. I'm sure those weren't low end FPGAs. Not to mention the cost to develop the circuitry they implement.

Doesnt look too bad.

I cant belive someone would pay that much for a computer and let it get that dirty

Wow, lots of 90s tech porn in there lol

Is it time for the part 2 to the 386 computer?