> Zane, is your record from Norlin Company? If so, it is the (quite
>rare) demo record that Norlin put out when they bought Moog music
>from Bob (Moog). I have archived several of these demos, Moog and
>ARP and Oberhiem. Be careful if you play it, they weren't on the
>best vinyl.
Thanks... I couldn't remember Bob's first name...
When I was at WPI in the mid-70s, I got a chance to work with the
Arp AX and Odyssey (and a few others for which I forget names) to
produce some music which was used in a theatrical production on
campus (Beltold Brecht's Gallileo)...
I loved getting chances to work on those things...
> ObCLASSICCMP: One of my intentions for at least one of my PDP11
>systems is to interface it to my Moog, and obtain an old copy of
>Csound or the like.. to recreate an exact environment from the
>'childhood' of electronic music.
About a decade ago, a few friends of mine and I played with some
pdp-11 controlled music generation. We got a bunch of the TI
sound generation controllers and one person (who was adept at
IC circuit design) designed us a circuit for controlling a set of
these units from a DR11C (16-bit parallel output).
I still have one prototyped at home... it allowed up to 9 voices
(three voices/chip, 3 chips) of sound, and 3 voices of percussion.
Someone else got ahold of the Stanford music software for the pdp-10
and wrote a pdp-11 version of it... we had it playing a bunch of
the old stanford songs, and I entered a few more (like Scott
Joplin's "Crush Collision Rag"). Since the hardware connected to the
AC lights of the -10 was called the MK10, we called our board the
MK11...
Somewhere I have the schematic for it...
Later on, another friend (hi, Allison) designed a DLV11-J to MIDI
interface... I have a couple of Casio CT101 synthesizers and a
sequencer...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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>Anyway I was wondering if anyone knows anything about what kind of
>hardware was used for this?
Moog synthesizers...
'Moog' is not the kind of music ("Hey, let me put on some moog music."),
rather it is the name of the inventer of the synthesizer.
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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< A few questions about clean(ing) circuits:
< a)Can dust cause any damage to a PCB? Can it short anything?
Yes, it can be conductive, block cooling and host molds and fungi.
< b)What do you recommend for cleaning out PCBs if there's lot of it,
< or spiderwebs, mold whatever?
Vacuum with a conductive (carbon/plastic fiber) brush.
< c)Does distilled water cause rust?
Rust is the product of oxidation. Air is the culprit. Water _may_
instigate electrolisys if not fully dried and power is appiled.
< d)Can distilled water be used to clean circuits?
Yes.
< e)As I understand, tap/spring/rain/etc. water is full of minerals
< and that's why it's conductive as well as rust-causing
Not enough to be a significant problem if it's dried. I have been known
to put grungy boards in the dishwasher. Works very well. The board must
be completely dried (160-180F overn works well).
< f)A while ago, I picked up a bunch of 5.25" diskettes, which I hardly
< allowed to dry before I put them into the plastic box. Now I
< looked inside, and mold is spreading from the Microsoft Assembler
< diskettes onto the Apple II ones. What is safe to use to clean
< the mold (it's reeely disgusting!)?
Dish soap and water.
Allison
A little slow again but I'll keep looking. Found the following items on
Friday and Saturday: 1) 386 tower loaded, cdrom, 51/4 and 3.5 FD's, sound
card, fax/modem, and all for $15 at Goodwill;
2) Mac 512k MB for $5 just to get a MacSnap SCSI board by DOVE that was
mounded on it;
3) Manual for Xerox 6060 family of machines Free;
4) HP2686A laserjet service manual;
5) HP2663A Technical reference manual;
6) Model 950 kb .80 at thrift;
7) Mac Plus mouse .80 at thrift;
8) Mac HD20 M0135 that hooks to the FD port for 3.83 at thrift;
9) EPSON EQUITY III with plus II XL hardcard in it, and a internal tape
backup unit for 4.04 at thrift;
10) KAYPRO CP/M manual dated Jan 1978 for 1.00 at thrift;
11) KAYPRO II user's guide dated Feb 1983 for 1.00 at thrift;
12) Z81 at thrift for free;
13) Atari Super Pong Console model TV-190 at thrift for free;
14) Mac 128k KB for free;
15) VIC 20 power supply free;
16) Vic20 cartridges- PacMan, Raid on Fort Knox, Doney Kong, Demon Attack
all free at thrift;
17) TRS80 26-3022 Color computer mini disk ext FD unit free;
18) box full of about 6 different apple II cards for free;
19) HP D1182A VGA monitor made in 1988 but works great for .80 at thrift;
20) NEC PC-8201A with printer and amanuals for $10;
21) CRT tube tester model 159 with manual and very old $12 not tested yet
made by Acurate Instrument Co. of Bronk NY no date anywhere;
22) and several ohter items too new to talk about here for now.
That it for now keep computing John
I've recently gotten the necessary hardware and software together to
transfer Records (16, 33, 45, and 78) to CD. As part of this I was digging
through my parents Record collection and found a record that is Moog music.
It was something I was looking for, as it was so unusual that I remember
when my dad brought it home over 20 years ago.
Anyway I was wondering if anyone knows anything about what kind of hardware
was used for this?
Zane
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ok, yet another Q for those of you out there who have run across these.
anyone have a suggestion for where i might come across a ~20mb RLL
drive? 3.5" size, don't have the model #'s on me at the moment although
I recall with the toshiba it was a JVC. seems to me from what I could
pull off the net that these drives seem to die often.
-Eric
What's Moog music?
At 12:21 PM 7/26/98 -0700, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>I've recently gotten the necessary hardware and software together to
>transfer Records (16, 33, 45, and 78) to CD. As part of this I was digging
>through my parents Record collection and found a record that is Moog music.
>It was something I was looking for, as it was so unusual that I remember
>when my dad brought it home over 20 years ago.
>
>Anyway I was wondering if anyone knows anything about what kind of hardware
>was used for this?
>
> Zane
>| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator |
>| healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast |
>| healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector |
>+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
>| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
>| and Zane's Computer Museum. |
>| http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/ |
>
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Ok, this is a repost since the original responder had to back out for
whatever reason...
I have some excess Zenith Z248 equipment to get out of my way and
would prefer a trade of other equipment for
these..
I have two ZDS ZWS 248's, these are the planar units that the
286-12 processor board plugs into. Complete
main units with the planar board, power supply, cpu board, I/O
board HDD/floppy controller (MFM), MDA
video card, drive bay inserts, etc. You need to add drives and it
will take any drive from 360k to 1.44m. It takes
all sorts of MFM hard drives as well and can probably accomodate an
SCSI or ESDI in place of the MFM
controller which will allow larger drive types. 512k on the cpu
card. They have two open 5.25" bays, one has a
filler that can be removed.
There's also another identical unit without a power supply. It's a
case, planar board, drive bay inserts, 2 I/O
boards. Mostly for parts or use to build up with parts you find
elsewhere.
I need $25 plus shipping for ALL THREE (as a package) or will trade
for something that I can use such as
cdroms, hard drives, SIMMs, microchannel adapters,etc, etc, etc....
I would really like to get a couple 2X or
higher SCSI cdrom drives, caddy type or tray load or larger SCSI
hard drives whether full, half, 5.25 or 3.5"...
Drop me a line if interested. I also have two ZDS memory cards that
work on these to bring the 512k up past
1024k that I would like $10 each or trade for. They are not open to
sale/trade until the other units are gone and
the new owner decides they don't want them.
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RB Custom Services / Rt. 1 Box 62E / Harned, KY USA 40144
Phone: (502) 756-1749 Data/Fax:(502) 756-6991
Email: rhblake(a)bbtel.com or rhblake(a)bigfoot.com
Website: http://members.tripod.com/~RHBLAKE/
ICQ UIN #1714857
AOL Instant Messenger "RHBLAKEMAN"
* Parts/Service/Upgrades and more for MOST Computers*
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Found this on the obsolete computer helpline and thought one or two of
you might be interested in a Model 1. Please contact the author of the
inquiry at the AOL address direct, not me.
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G.R.Sippel <Geosip(a)aol.com>
Indianapolis, IN US - Sunday, July 26, 1998 at 13:17:39
I have a TRS80 Model 1 in very good condition and want to know how
much it might be worth.
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Russ Blakeman
RB Custom Services / Rt. 1 Box 62E / Harned, KY USA 40144
Phone: (502) 756-1749 Data/Fax:(502) 756-6991
Email: rhblake(a)bbtel.com or rhblake(a)bigfoot.com
Website: http://members.tripod.com/~RHBLAKE/
ICQ UIN #1714857
AOL Instant Messenger "RHBLAKEMAN"
* Parts/Service/Upgrades and more for MOST Computers*
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are there hard drives for laptops that are smaller than the 2.5"
drives? I have a laptop that takes an IDE hdd, but the space is about
3/4 of an inch to small to even fit a 2.5" drive. I vaguely recall
seeing something about 1.8" drives? Am I hallucinating here or does such
a creature exist?
-Eric
