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Sweet... I played on a SY99 in school, AFAIR.
I still own a SY22.
Sweet... I played on a SY99 in school, AFAIR.
Sweet... I played on a SY99 in school, AFAIR.
I still own a SY22.
Sounds good.
I built two when I was really into electronics as a hobby. One disappeared, can't remember what I did with it.
The other one was a more serious kit, see #55 above for pics.
Hope to have some time later in the year to get it working again, just have to find my soldering iron...
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Apparently, analog synthesizers are the "in" thing these days:
http://www.retrothing.com/2015/01/vintage-synthesizer-reissues-invade-namm-2015.html
I have my dad's old Garrard record changer. He got this in the 60s or early 70s, and when I was a teenager he got a Technics and the Gerrard became mine. It works fine in manual mode, but the changer function doesn't work anymore. There is a repairman around here I plan on taking it to. You want to see cool retro-tech, you chould see the workshop that guy has!
I'm curious... What did you play?
My music teacher at school was deeply into experimental electronic music. (And a bit crazy - genius and insanity had been really close in this one), resulting in having quite some nice toys there, all connected with MIDI on a sequencer and a Atari ST. Which was quite a nice aspect if you own an Atari ST yourself and know how to program it.
Before switching to electric guitar after my time in the army, I used to play keyboards and piano, also attended musical school there for some years. With a strong preference for rock tracks, but I also remember that I knew how to play the theme music of "Das Boot". :lol: Also I had seen some of the Yamaha stuff there during the nineties.
To Orbekler, and thread in general
If I forgot to say, the synth is a ETI 4600. It was a project in an Australian electronics magazine of the same name. Maplin. a UK electronics chain, took it up and started making kits and parts available for it.
Its not been switched on for about 20 years, but it did all work...I'm going to pick it up this week-end and start re-furbishing it. Probably all the electrolytics will have "dried-out", and I'll need to be careful putting power on it. If they have dried low-resistance or short that can damage other components.
In the best tradition of "Sod's Law", the most expensive chip will sacrifice itself to save the fuse!
Its a modular construction with a bus-bar power supply, so if I take it slowly and carefully, I shouldn't have too much destruction...
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/20130521_200657_zpsa2c2bc7f.jpg
That's the power-supply, bolted to the back panel. I'll start there, get it working, and move on to the smallest(and cheapest) pcb. Probably one of the 2-input mixers.
N.
In the best tradition of "Sod's Law", the most expensive chip will sacrifice itself to save the fuse!
N.
Vintage tech goes under the hammer
An Apple 1 motherboard, a 79-year-old TV and the only surviving processor of the last supercomputer designed by Seymour Cray are being auctioned in New York.
The 1936 Baird television set may not work and delivers a huge electrical charge of 5000 volts.
But it could still fetch between $20,000 (£13,000) and $30,000, according to auctioneer Bonhams.
The Apple 1 has a starting price of $300,000.
I remember there was a peculiar telewriter machine for getting the flight weather reports - it had a scroll of paper, and a mechanical stylus that wrote letters and numbers on the paper. I believe it was actually transcribing someone's handwriting from another location - it wasn't dot matrix or printed text, the stylus actually was writing. They used the old METAR format at I was proud that I could actually decipher what the weather report meant.
Speaking of synths and shepard tones, I once spent ages trying to do a shepard tone based on clavia's Nord Modular G2 demo software. (Allows you to set up oscillators, filters, etc. - worth a play by the way.)
Never got it to sound quite convincing - I could still hear the notes start at the beginning of the range, and fade out at the end. Oh well!
That's really interesting! I saw something like this being used for voice recording in a movie about the war ("Downfall") - one of the German military officers was pre-recording a message onto a fairly thick ribbon that obviously wasn't magnetic tape. I had no idea how it worked until I saw your post!I never heard of this before, but it's really cool retro tech: a tape player, but the tape isn't magnetic, it's actually grooved like a vinyl record and played with a needle stylus that runs along the capstan. This thing is so cool!