[sdiy] was : Anybody French, know this guy?

[Mikael Mørup]

Citat Senso <senso at dds.nl>:

> >Off topic a bit but...
> >
> >Is anyone besides me completely blown away when stuff
> like this happens?  I
> >mean, the global nature of the community?  I remember
> when I felt like I had
> >hit a goldmine because of some surplus supplier I found
> in town or a guy a
> >little out of town who had a small cache of SSM or CEM
> chips.  Now, there
> >are people in France looking in the remote countryside
> for an EPROM for a
> >long extinct drum machine for Mark in... somewhere, I
> don't know where Mark
> >is but I'm sure it's not the French countryside.
> >
> >So, even though I have nothing to do with this thread or
> topic, I just
> >wanted to say thanks to everyone anywhere who has ever
> helped me out.  It
> >makes my brain hurt just thinking about it! ;)
> >
> >James R. Coplin
> >***************
>
> I know these things happen on a regular basis, but it
> still boggles
> my mind as well. Just tonight this guy in England drops a
> video
> monitor on his beloved JX-8P and breaks one of the keys.
> He is about
> to cut his throat but one look in Google and he sees he
> can get a new
> one from Holland. He hits his Paypal button and I'll be
> dropping his
> key off at the post office when day breaks.
> For us this is an everyday thing and we usually take it
> for granted,
> but we should realize the web is the most important
> invention of the
> 20th century (except for the synthesizer maybe - LOL).
> Behind all the
> banners and the Viagra spam, the true ideal of the web is
> more alive
> than ever.
>
> Senso

To me it's even more mind blowing.

Without the rescources, schematics, PCB layouts, people
answering my beginners questions, genereal electronics
intro sites, and what know i, on the Internet, i would
never in a milion years have been able to start a synth DIY
project. Very soon i will be putting my first homebuild
module(s) in my new (also homebuild) 15 module enclosure.

Without the net and you guys, that had never happend.

A while back, someone posted a message saying something lige
"Because of the internet, this is the golden age of synth
DIY", whoever it was, i think he was absolutely right

Mikael