Fairlight CVI
The Fairlight CVI (computer video instrument) is an Australian made digital video FX and paint box made in the mid 80s. It is very low res, and not quite full screen, but it is very much a real time effects box with very fast and intuitive analogue controls. (great for live work). The CVI does things like mirror effects, psychodelic colorisation, chunky stretch and zoom, etc. It has a built in graphics pad for drawing and later models (such as the CVI Plus, pictured above) came with a qwerty keyboard for easy text insertion.
The CVI has 2 channels (with both composite and RGB inputs) but since there is no built in TBC, the inputs must be genlocked to use both channels. Single channel operation, however, does not require the source to be genlocked
The CVI Plus has a resolution of 235 x 287 pixels and a processor clocked at the blistering speed of 2Mhz.