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Edirol/Roland DV-7

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First post, by lolo799

Posted on 2015-07-12, 20:44

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The Edirol DV-7 is a video editing workstation running under BeOS, one of the few professional hardware using that operating system.
I bought this unit for a very cheap price, it has some problems though, like a missing system hdd, a cut +12v cable rendering a couple of molex connectors useless and a dead cdrom drive.

The specs are:
motherboard PW810-V by Radisys Tech
https://web.archive.org/web/20010828201725/ht … tasheetsID=1028
chipset i810
Celeron 433
256MB SDRAM PC100
integrated graphic: i752 with 1MB shared RAM
AC'97 audio codec
serial & parallel port
ps/2 kb&mouse
usb1.1
C-Cube Microsystems DVxpress-MX25 video encoder/decoder chipp as part of the Roland video capture card.

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Reply 1 of 7, by lolo799

Posted on 2015-07-12, 20:50

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The PhoenixBios 4.0 has some interesting options:

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Reply 2 of 7, by calvin

Posted on 2015-07-13, 17:18

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This thing needs to be sent back to its former glory running BeOS. Accept nothing else.

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Reply 3 of 7, by jwt27

Posted on 2015-07-13, 17:40

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Looks cool! Kinda reminds me of this Sony computer that doesn't look much like a computer at all:

Specs are a little... underwhelming. I'd imagine a specialized (and probably expensive) video editing machine would have at least a dual pentium 3 with high-end graphics, not some crummy celeron.

Reply 4 of 7, by lolo799

Posted on 2015-07-14, 11:31

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calvin wrote:
This thing needs to be sent back to its former glory running BeOS. Accept nothing else.

That's exactly why I bought it!
Finding the original system restore disc might be difficult though...

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Reply 5 of 7, by Snayperskaya

Posted on 2015-07-14, 23:05

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Beautiful system. Congrats 😀

Reply 6 of 7, by lolo799

Posted on 2015-11-12, 22:50

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Bought another DV-7, which came with a working hdd 😀

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Reply 7 of 7, by GL1zdA

Posted on 2015-11-13, 09:14

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Great computer. Old video hardware is nice because it often had to work around the limitations of old hardware (mostly bandwidth). Wish I had more time to work with my Visual Workstation 540.

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