[sdiy] ASM1-VCO Problem

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "john mahoney" <jmahoney at gate.net>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] ASM1-VCO Problem
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 19:42:09 -0400

> I knew there must be a story behind that schematic error with a life of its
> own.

Either that, or I am a hell of a guy to tell fairytales... take your pick! ;O)

> And now, Magnus, please tell your morale to come home; it should know that
> some people are quite envious of your excellent analog synth and electronics
> knowledge.

Ehum! I deny having _ANYTHING_ to do with the conception of the ASM-1, Gene is
in for that (Stats: Gene 3 kids, Magnus 0 kids). I did however help to spread
the message...

Thanks for the other kind words there... ;O)

> Not to mention that you are the only person I have ever heard of
> who did hand-coded PostScript, besides Don Lancaster!  :-)

I actually have a friend who made a hand-coded color ligthning as a fractal in
Postscript. It took virtually ages back then (about 94-95) to get it out the
printer but it sure looked nice.

Postscript isn't that bad to work with, especially when you do like I did, do
a library of usefull stuff. Unfortunately I didn't work on it sufficiently
well to make it reasnoble to do layouts in it, it is still kind of painstaking
or maybe you get something out of a snippet of code like this one:

% Draw U4
dup_pair
-1 0 rdraw_line
3 (U4) (LM311) 1 rdraw_op
pop_pair
% (Q3-2 R17-2' R18-2' C3-2' U4-1 U4-2)
2 rolltop_pair
draw_moveto
-1 0 rdraw_line
pop 5 index
% (Q3-2 R17-2' R18-2' C3-2' U4-2 X(U4-1') Y(R18-2'))
lineto
3 rolltop_pair
lineto
draw_dot
% (Q3-2 R17-2' C3-2' U4-2)

Now, just make a wild guess what this code-piece is all about! ;O)

Notice the comments - they are my attempt to keep track of what goes where...

Cheers,
Magnus