ODP: Document it---Dang it!

[Roman Sowa]

Sounds like the story of my life.
I thought, and I did remember every piece of circuit of my polysynth,
but when I wanted lately to make a simple mod, it took me whole day
to figure out where the tracks go and where in hell 'this' transistor came
from - it wasn't on the schemo!.
And old drawings become yellow and turn into pieces after viewing them
100s of times...

Roman (not that old, anyway)

-----Oryginalna wiadomooeæ-----
Od: patchell [mailto:patchell at teletrac.com]
Wys³ano: 14 wrzeoenia 1999 04:07
Do: Synth-DIY
Temat: Document it---Dang it!


    I thought I would pass a long a helpful hint, from a sort of old
timer to you young sprats.  Document those D.I.Y. projects.  Otherwise,
you will be sorry.  I (finally) have started the process of restoring my
first polyphonic synth I built about 20 years ago.  Dang if I can figure
out what some of the boards are supposed to do.  It is probably a little
easier now that we have computer cad and such, but I wish I had made
better sketches.  It seems that I must of thought at the time that there
was no way I would forget how that one worked.  WRONG!

    Well, I'll figure somehow.  Don't let this happen to you.

    Getting Old.........-Jim