Interactive Laservision demo setup used for instruction technology at the UT TO department. It consists of a controllable Philips Laservision VLP player, an Apple microcomputer with Nubus slots, a Nubus Video overlay card MIC System II from UK company VideoLogic (1990), where training instructions can be interactively merged with the video output from the laservision player.
Specification
Philips VP410 Laservision disc drive
Apple Macintosh IIcx microcomputer with Motorola 68030 CPU.
Nubus video overlay card DVA-4000/Macintosh Digital Video Adapter with MIC System II software from VideoLogic used for controlling video, audio and mixing video and graphics.
The VideoLogic 8-bit graphics card (also Nubus) is used for graphics.
The MIC producer software is enabling programming in HyperCard, SuperCard, Macromedia Director 2.0 and Authorware Professional. Together with control of supported videodisk player.
Remarks
A similar system has been used at Instruction Technology practica at the UT by Pleun Verhagen. This consisted of an Olivetti PC with Digital/Analog video converter.
Also used for workfloor training for cheese making.
A similar setup has been used at the Business Administration by prof. Koos Krabbendam for interactive business cases.