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Digital Betacam Player with Firewire
i-Link outputs

Plays back Betacam, Betacam SP and Betacam SX, DigiBeta and MPEG-2 IMX formats. It features a jog shuttle dial to enable easy searching, and handles both S and L-size cassettes. Has SDI and firewire outputs for capturing. Perfect for digitizing to Quicktime or to Final Cut Pro and Avid.
Avid

Founded by a marketing manager from Apollo Computer, Inc., William J. Warner, a prototype of their first digital nonlinear editing system (the Avid/1) was shown in a private suite at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in April 1988. The Avid/1 was based around an Apple Macintosh II computer, with special hardware and software of Avid's own design installed.
At the NAB show in April of 1989, the Avid/1 was publicly introduced. The first system shipped (Serial # 001) was to Alan Miller at Rebo Studio in New York in June 1989. He, along with four other beta sites, tested it until its formal release date in December 1989. The University of Hawaii was the first educational institution to receive the Avid for its Media Lab run by Patricia Amaral, also in 1989. Anthony Pennings, now at New York University, was the first academic to teach the Avid.