The Mindset Computer
April 2, 2004
Not long after the Mindset emerged, Atari rapdily put together the ST to beat Commodore's Amiga to market (which it did). When I heard the graphics specs of the 520ST, the first ST out the gate, it struck a chord in my memory. 320x200 with 16 colors out of a palette of 512. Well, in an interesting twist it turns out that the Mindset was designed by two ex-Atari engineers. It's not quite clear just how this or that bit of video hardware design went this way or that, but there would seem to have been some "sharing" there.
At any rate, I am rambling on like this because the machine made an impression on me long ago, but I never heard anything more about it. Web searches always came up fairly dry, though I was in e-mail contact with a fellow who owns two of them. At any rate, to attempt to remedy the situation, I took the Creative Computing magazine in question, which I had since acquired, and scanned in the photos and synopsized the writeup and submitted the lot to Old-Computers.com, a site that tracks all kinds of information about a great number of old machines. They were kind enough to wrap it all up into a full profile about the Mindset computer. So hopefully I have helped fill in a void that existed in the on-line world. Everyone can rest a little easier now.
I also ran across the full text of that Creative Computing article, which can be seen here.
UPDATE (10/20/04): It looks like someone donated a Mindset computer, in excellent condition, to Old-Computers.com, making it a very good source of info and photos of this rather unique machine of the mid-80's.
Posted by blakespot at April 2, 2004 7:26 AM
Originally reading the article in Creative Computing lead to my designing what became the JVC Video Titler in 1984. Steve Bress was the programmer. It was, I believe, the first professional desktop video product for a PC clone.
What made it possible was the video overlay capability and Steve's clever programming techniques that took advantage of the hardware graphics controller's shift registers.
You can actually see an animation created in 1985 using the Mindset computer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kilIyXfHg0
By the way, Adjay Chopra, the founder of Pinnacle Systems was one of the engineers behind the designog the Mindset. He founded Pinnacle Systems immediately after Mindset's bankruptcy.
http://broadcastengineering.com/news/pinnacle-systems-capital-20060410/
Nice submission! I never thought I'd see Mindset animation. Thanks so much! Fascinating stuff you tell.
Didn't Pinnacle have a MC68000-based workstation of some sort. I recall something about that from Creative Computing magazine in the mid 80's.
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