[sdiy] My First Synth Project (more Geezer Stuff....)

[Scott Bernardi]

My first modules were PAIA 2700 stuff too.  My front panels were a bit 
better than yours. I used a Sharpie pen to draw my traces.

James Patchell wrote:

> Oh yes, I remember those days as well.  Built quite a few projects 
> that way myself.  I was in high school when I started to use home 
> etched PC boards...but I would paint the traces onto the board with a 
> brush....
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> At 10:56 AM 6/7/2004 -0700, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
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>> Not bad.  I wish I had saved some of the stuff I built as a kid.  I
>> remember doing *real* breadboard stuff.  I never actually used a true
>> breadboard though, but the projects were built on pine boards.  
>> Porcelain
>> tube sockets screwed down, bakelite terminal strips for resistors and
>> caps.  Even transistor stuff was done that way, well before I'd heard of
>> "printed circuit boards", I would actually use wood screws and 
>> washers as
>> connection points, ah the beauty of fahnstock clips.
>>
>> James Patchell <patchell at cox.net> wrote:
>> >http://www.oldcrows.net/~patchell/FirstSynth/FirstSynth.html
>> >
>> >Some of the newbies might find this page interesting.  These are some
>> >photos of some of the modules from my very first synth project.  I 
>> built
>> >these from schematics for the Paia 2700.  The sequencer was the first
>> >module I designed from the ground up (not based on anything else...).
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >         -Jim
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>         -Jim
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