[sdiy] Programmable Logic?

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Don Tillman <don at till.com>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Programmable Logic?
Date: 20 Jul 2004 08:40:59 -0700
Message-ID: <m24qo24rg4.fsf at till.com>

Hi Don,

>    > Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:30:55 +0200 (CEST)
>    > From: Magnus Danielson <cfmd at bredband.net>
>    > 
>    > So, anyone with the gear-box details at hand that could shift
>    > them my way?
> 
> Hey Magnus,
> 
> They're in Laurens Hammond's original patents; US 1,956,350 and 
> US 2,159,505.

Thanks! I'll check them out later.

> (And of course I have to add some comment about how, here in this
> modern digital world, it's so difficult to duplicate a simple organ
> mechanism built with 1930's consumer technology!)

The devil is in the details!

Doing the same overall thing is one thing, but when certain details becomes
mandatory part of an implementation you need to toss the right amount of 
resources on them in order to do it. It takes time to figure out efficient
methods to do it, and that only AFTER having actually figured out what is going
on in the first place. 

Cheers,
Magnus