"It all started with a used computer keyboard," wailed Vince Codak to his therapist. "Picked it up cheap. Plugged it into my computer and zap, fried the motherboard. 'But OK,' I figured. Since I now need to replace the danged thing anyway, I might as well get something that I can use with my computer for nonlinear video editing.
"I'd been reading about it. Nonlinear sounded so easy, 'like cutting and pasting in a word processor' is what they all said. 'And the prices for the necessary gear are plummeting.'
"I read a bit more, first. All the nonlinear software seems to want a Pentium and the new digitizers prefer PCI. So I went out and got a Pentium processor on a PCI motherboard. Figured I'd plug all my current cards, drives and RAM into that, and cruise for a time while saving up for the next com…
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