PolyModular Standards

[Rory McDonald]

a bit OT-sorry 
It's really quite a credit to the 6502 and Apple that a 1Mhz cpu could do so
much- I STILL have Apple II's in my studio; one runs a Mountain Hardware
synth, with 16 digital oscillators, and an Eventide Clockworks Spectrum
analyzer.  In the early days of personal computing, the Apple II had
programs (on cassette no less) that could do voice recognition and output
(no hardware), 3d graphics and simulation(Flight Simulator), some pretty
good games for the day (Bill Budge's Pinball was great) etc etc.
Since almost ALL of the good programs were written in Assembler or direct
machine language, these programs were compact (can anyone here write a voice
recognition package on a PC in 16k?), fast and reliable.  A nice thing about
my old apple II is that it boots a disk in literally seconds, compared to
the agonizing time for my Pentium to load up windows etc.  Yes the graphics
were crude compared to today, but the 6502 STILL has applications!
-Rory Mc Donald
...always on my Apple soapbox...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tony Allgood [SMTP:oakley at techrepairs.freeserve.co.uk]
> Sent:	Thursday, May 06, 1999 11:11 AM
> To:	synth diy
> Subject:	Re: PolyModular Standards
> 
> >The 6502 is still available in the US from Jameco Electronics. The 1mHz
> version is $3.25 in single pieces.
> 
> I knew they were slow, but thats ridiculous. :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tony Allgood, Cumbria, UK
> 
> Rack mounted moog filter and the TB3030 SuperBassline projects:
> 
> http://aupe.phys.andrews.edu/diy_archive/schematics/oakley/
> 
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