z80 stuff

[Jason D Stephens]

>I'd advise you to start first with a book like Craig Anderton's 
>Electronics Projects for
>Musicians, as he teaches you more of the basics - but the parts he 
>uses are now hard to
>get (not as bad as in my book though).  He needs to update it to the 
>level of technology
>today.

**Can it still be found in bookstores?  I may have seen it but it seems
to be more for guitar pedals and stuff but i see how you could learn
about all kinds of stuff from that.  Might be a good idea to check it
out.....

>Yeah, when I was that age I was trying to decide what I wanted to do 
>too.  I liked
>electronics and music but wasn't good at playing the guitar.  I liked 
>building musical
>circuits and dreamed of having a huge modular synth to play with.  
>Ended up making my own
>and writing the book about doing that.  Then I ended up working for 
>Leo Fender which was
>like the ultimate - I thought I'd been touched by God or something.  
>So you never know
>what will happen if you at least give it a try.  Now I'm in disk 
>drives - hate it but it
>pays the bills, at 45 I still think I'll be doing something different 
>that I'll really
>enjoy.  I just hear the clock ticking louder than I used to!

**(in all modesty) i have musical talent.  I don't want to be pushed into
designing something but i would like to do that on my own with my own
design....so i can use it for my music.  I have a band right now that
might use a synth if i ever get one built.  We did use a didjeridoo
(which i played) on our demo on the last track.  That was pretty cool. 
We'll see what happens with everything.  :-)

Jason

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