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In the early 1990s, a small American company called Data Translation took what it knew about coding and decoding pictures for the US military and large corporate clients and threw $ 12 million into developing a desktop editor which would use its proprietary compression algorithms and off-the-shelf parts.

Their aim was to ' democratize ' the desktop and take some of Avid's market.

In August 1993, Media 100 entered the market and thousands of would-be editors had a low-cost, high-quality platform to use.