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>Yeah. I got myself a 200k gates kit for $99 a few years back. That's bloody<BR>
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>> Oh....at Tandy I got the TRW rep to *sample* me one of those MPT-16C, 16 x 16<BR>
>> bipolat logic multipliers with the extruded heat sink on top. IT was for my<BR>
>> 2900-bit slice Z80 emulator (it ran at 20Mhz, too and outran a VAX 11/780). I<BR>
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so guys, all this talk of programable logic and "brute force" stuff getting so cheap...<BR>
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how can it (or anything new) be applied to make new analog toys??? besides 5.1 surround (which would be a cool module....) <BR>
Paul, you once dreamed of a programmable modular with a bus style backplane or something TITAN you were going to call (?) it but it was $$ back before MOTM (??97-98?) would this be more feasible today? <BR>
what about today? the state of the art in opamps and IC's and microprocessors fueled the programmable polysynths of the 80's, now the computing power per dollar and DSP is fueling all the VA's and softsynths, I guess today all the $$ is in tiny chips for celphones and flat tv's and market driven make me vomit me too technology.. booring stuff.... how can we apply whats new and hot to analog synths?? is there just too much of a gap?<BR>
I really have no clue as to whats out there today on the periphery, Im still trying to catch up with 70's tech.....<BR>
anyone care to comment?<BR>
are us through-hole dinosaurs destined for extinction? Say it aint so!!!!<BR>
Anyone?<BR>
FPGA's programmable as CEM style synths on a chip?<BR>
just a fun topic Id like to hear more about....<BR>
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~Steve M</FONT></HTML>