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• • • 4* -.it.. i.‘. r. *i.i;V that he has generat- <br />:on in af\er>ias pro* <br />*.:re Occidental debt <br />:o start firm <br />'inpany “will enable <br />centrate on «he ere- <br />>t' the entertainment <br />.*tie showcase for his <br />New York-based <br />said. <br />eflient said Peters re- <br />hange. and it quoted <br />ving he was giving <br />ipport" to the man <br />ha business partner <br />Guber will now be <br />iman of Columbia <br />u chief executive, <br />spokesman Robert <br />.0 discuss financial <br />arrangement with <br />aid neither Colum- <br />«ill have a stake in <br />lOtesale <br />:.96 billion in notes <br />ut of bids totaling <br />>g concludes today <br />oa of SI I.7S billion <br />(ids. It bepn Tues- <br />akofSlX56 billion <br />soles with an aver- <br />)9 percent. <br />: refunding is S2.5 <br />than the previous <br />February bKause of <br />swnent receipts and <br />(pcaditures by the <br />■t Cbrp.. the gov- <br />cy set up to handle <br />d ioan bailout. <br />oductivity <br />:* 1991. Eight hours <br />cy caught the mis- <br />ibled to report the <br />iterday oiTictally re- <br />d inaccurate figures <br />oartment said the <br />sd when inaccurate <br />as transmitted from <br />' Department to the <br />X Statistics. <br />ufrigeration busi- <br />with a truckload <br />It and a fhendly <br />'links. Obituary on <br />> • >V •*«a A • .a - • ^ • I • - »*its nis.iucu .»n <br />M - <br />I -H Via. <br />t - <br />viT a/f . ^ ^ <br />V <br />•j: 9 <br />fhOv vi <br />f <br /><-•>*/ <br />r:: <br />r <br />yj <br />Staff Photo by Joay McLeister <br />KIkl Stockhammar of NawTak Inc. damonstratad tha company*a VIdao Toaatar vMao-oifltlng ayttam <br />Wadnaaday at tha Strictly Bualnaaa Computar Expo at tha MInnaapolla Cenvantlon Cantar. <br />Vi(jeo Toaster cooks up <br />top-quality special effects <br />By SlcTc Gross <br />SulTWnicr <br />The TV images dance at ihc louch <br />of a computer button. <br />A TV picture of a woman shnnks <br />and flips end-over-end until it dis* <br />appears. A toy model of Batman’s <br />airplane appean to fly through a <br />“canyon” drawn with computer <br />graphics. Psychedelic colors ’’fill <br />up” a TV picture the way a stream <br />of water fills a glass. <br />Those and other tncks were created <br />by a S4,000 gadget called the Video <br />Toaster, which promises to deliver <br />studio-quality special effects for <br />budget<onscious video film pro- <br />ducen It was the hit of the Strictly <br />Business Computer Expo at the <br />Minneapolis Convention Center <br />Wednesday, drawing a crowd from <br />among the Q.OOO people who at­ <br />tended through midaficmoon. <br />The Video Toaster consists of a <br />special circuit board and software <br />that transform an Amiga model <br />2000 or 2500 personal computer <br />into a video special cfTects device <br />It was displayed yesterday by Al­ <br />pha Video, a Bloomington marfet- <br />er of video production equipment <br />and services. <br />NewTck Inc., a 6-year-old Topeka. <br />Kan., firm that invented the Video <br />Toaster, said the product's unusual <br />name is an inside joke. While the <br />product was under secret develop ­ <br />ment, NewTek tned to throw po ­ <br />tential competitors ofT the track by <br />saying it was building a laser toast ­ <br />er that would cut a hotel ’s logo into <br />Toaster continued on page 8D <br />\c <br />•V <br />fl'