[sdiy] Harry's Nightmare!

John L Marshall john.l.marshall at gte.net
Thu Nov 8 08:17:07 CET 2001


Halloween has come and gone. Save it for next year.

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From: GothGeek Sysadmin <xyzzy at sysabend.org>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 9:03 PM
Subject: [sdiy] Harry's Nightmare!


> Anyone else on this list playing with Tubes?
>
> If interested, I found some old computer schematics and in them was a nice
> simple sample/hold which I've ordered parts to try and build this weekend.
>
> Yes, you can see this one coming...
>
> I figure, heat withstanding, I can fit 10 of these on a single card.
> I have several S100 chassis and can easily grab more so this is the size
> I'm basing this on.  This means 100 in a chassis and approx 500 in a rack.
> Not an extremely long delay time I realise but the sheer shock value of
> this could be amusing ( quite literally! ).
>
> Yes! The mythical Tube BBD! *cackles evilly*
>
> Yes, I have gone insane.  Between hacking up my poor Minimoog, assembling
> all the stuff I bought from EFM, fixing friends keyboards, and working on
> two designs for equipment ( one a large step sequencer and one a larger
> polyphonic synth ) *and* working my real job, I feel half braindead.
> Anyone else have this problem?
>
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