[sdiy] powertran transcendent 2000

[Peachey, Dave]

Neil et al,

	> Well, it appeared in ETI sometime *before* April 1982, as that is
when my
	> archive starts.  My guess is sometime in 1980.
	>
	> Or possibly 1978 according to Synrise:
	> http://www.synrise.de/docs/types/p/powertran.htm

Definitely before 1980 - I started taking ETI in Jan 1980 (the issue before
the Digisound 80 articles first appeared) and it was being promoted in the
ETI Powertran adverts from before then (some of my friends at school were
taking ETI throughout 1979) although I couldn't say when I first became
aware of it.

I also recall having a chance to play with one - and actually get a sound
out of it without really knowing what I was doing - at a music instrument
expo in London (Earl's Court, maybe) in early summer 1980 whilst I was
between senior school and my first job!  I seem to remember that, at the
time, I thought it a most unintuitive piece of kit to play with - one of the
reasons why I decided to start building the Digisound 80 kits because, at
least with those, I thought I knew what I was plugging into what :-)

Cheers
Dave



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