[sdiy] Buchla's Back / Work is a Four-Letter Word

[William Inman]

Since the "Buchla's back" and "working is a lousy way to make money"
threads have come together today, see the website posted here a while ago:  

http://stephengoldin.com/gibson/technohick01.html

to remember that even the best designers do not always "have it made."

My favorite part of the whole story is the description of how Buchla and
associates exploited the weaknesses of parts to build a better design...
"By choosing components whose thermal characteristics were carefully offset
by other opposing components [...], they achieved a consistent and even
tuning throughout the thermal cycles of performance."  from
technochick09.html.

Elliot