To all PAIA buyers in my group......

[Chris Crosskey]

 OK Guys,
The two off-line people have now received their kits, and I'm 
awaiting cheques from the rest ATM,apart from Pete Forrest. Thanks for 
the cheque Pete, your kit will be out as soon as I have completed the 
mods we discussed. I expect it to be with you by the end of next week at 
the latest. For those of you with Doepfer A100's the mods I'm doing 
will add a reset button in place of the Power-LED on the Frak-Rak panel, 
and replace the On-Off switch on the Frak-Rak with a switch that will 
send the CV and Gate signals from the main outputs to the A100 
internal CV-Gate bus as well. WABOL this can be done without any mods to 
the A100 or the MIDI2CV8/Frak-Rak.
	As soon as I have done these mods I'll file them with PAIA, as I 
guess that for Europeans at least A100 functionality will be a useful 
thing. I don't know if Doepfer are trading in America yet, so they 
might not be aware of what the A100 is. AFAICS the bridge board can be 
mounted on the Hz/V pillar points,and basically consists of a 
16-pin IDC header with wires in from the A100 PSU and CV-Gate busses and 
out to a switch connected to the Mode #1 Cv and Gate lines and to a 
reset DPST momentary pushbutton conected to the PSU input lines of 
the MIDI2CV8, to allow for resetting of modes without powering down the 
whole case. As long as I can get a small switch for the reset I won't 
need to modify the front panel at all. 
BTW, the final prices are as follows....
Basic MIDI2CV8...	50.55 UKP
Frak Rak....		15.60 UKP
Shipping per M2CV8...	 1.56 UKP
Shipping Frak-Rak...	Included
UK Postage per M2CV8	 1.95 UKP 
Attn: Dave and Thierry, I'll sort out your postage etc at work 
tomorrow...watch this space. I'm also holding out the begging 
bowl for a fiver to cover my costs in organising this, but it's not 
compulsory. 
BTW, having worked on Pete Forrests kit for (hopefully) review in The 
Mix I can tell you that it is a doddle to build, and that PAIA 
occasionally don't quite get their resistor kitting right. It does 
seem from things I've heard in the past that this isn't exactly an 
unknown problem, and I for one am willing to live with the odd 
incorrect resistor, as I have a complete (I think)0 set of carbon 
films in my own stores. If you have an incorrect resistor, and don't 
have the right one to hand, conatact me and I'll send it straight 
over. It does only seem to afflict  their resistors rather than 
anything important, and I for one do not plan on hassling John to send 
me a resistor airmail... I'll try to draw up a pic of the A100 mod and 
post it as a GIF somewhere, probably to Josh, and certainly to PAIA.
     BTW, the bulk of this mail was written on an Atari Portfolio 
handheld whilst waiting for a pizza to arrive in a motorway stop after 
the two Atari shows this weekend, and it has just been transferred 
over using a Portfolio to Atari ST file transfer kit I bought. My 
other new toy from the weekend is an EPROM programmer. It's all in 
German, but I'll soon have it speaking English (it's fairly easy given 
the way Atari software is written), but for definites it supports out 
to 27512's, and I have a more advanced software set for it that can 
use a special 40-pin adaptor to access 27C080's and even 8751 uP's.


chrisc