System 100 Help

[inman at interpath.com]

Clarissa Fragile wrote:
>
> I can buy a couple of components for a non-working Roland System 100 for
> almost nothing. Could someone point me in a direction for some info on the
> guts of any/all of the components of this (fantasic) system?
>
>                               Clarissa Fragile


At the Minneapolis public library (downtown), there is a Roland manual on
synthesis that details the system 100M and how to use it.  It is called,
"Practical Synthesis for Electronic Music...Volume One, 2nd Edition".
The author is Roland.  The call number is "ML 1092, P73, 1979, v.1"  It will
tell you everything you need to know.  Why is such a high-tech, system-
specific, ratty old manual sitting on the shelf in that library?  Who knows,
but thank God for the librarian who saved it from the recycle bin.

I post this to the list only to suggest that public libraries are to
synthesizer manuals as yard sales are to wedgewood china.  You never
know who has what just sitting on a shelf -- yours just for the asking. :-)

Elliot "Mr. I Love Libraries"