The 1981 Quantel Paintbox was years ahead of the competition
It could create real-time broadcast quality video in 16 million colours yet only had a 335Mb hard drive. It was a giant, custom built graphics accelerator, running proprietary software and probably the best way
to see how it worked is to follow Mark Nias as he spends over a year restoring one to working order, explaining how each part works along the way...