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by mrandish 300 days ago
Yep, it was an absolutely bonkers combined hardware / software hack conceived by Tim Jenison and Brad Carvey on the hardware side and a team of low-level assembly language Amiga hackers on the software side, for which they won a Prime Time Emmy Award for outstanding technical achievement.

I'll never forget seeing a group of Japanese engineers from Sony who designed high-end video effects hardware (which cost >20x what a Toaster system did) seeing the Toaster at the NAB trade show for the first time. There was nothing but stunned silence and shocked looks... then after a long while of watching the demo and seeing the interface turn into weird garbage during each effect, you could see the light dawn on their faces - and then the whole group erupted into excited, highly-animated chatter. I've never wished I spoke Japanese as much as that moment :-).
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sillywalk 300 days ago
> Brad Carvey

Trivia: He's the brother of Dana Carvey, and Garth wears a Video Toaster T-Shirt in Wayne's World 2.

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mrandish 299 days ago
Trivia Trivia: Dana based the Wayne's World character Garth on his engineer brother Brad. When he's playing Garth he's impersonating his brother in a way that's as spot on yet over-the-top exaggerated as when Dana does his impersonation of US President George Bush - except the Brad impersonation is only hilarious to those who know Brad.
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