[sdiy] Learning electronics now - was Real cause of DIY death

[john tuffen]

Not quite as old as some of the reminiscences - we used punch-cards at the
beginning of my O-level in computer science... programs would take a week to
come back :)

As for music, well when I started on the MSc Music Technology course here in
York, we used systems based around Atari STs to do sound processing using "CDP
software" - using modified Sony PCM-1 units for digital audio output and *very
expensive* large SCSI disks (340 MB if I remember!!). We would generally start
a sound process off in an evening and leave the computers running overnight,
returning in the morning to hear the results.

Later on (during the second term I think) we got some brand new Silicon Graphics
Indigo workstations which could process audio *in real time*. Wow, what an
eye-opener *that* was!!

john..

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Quoting jbv <jbv.silences at club-internet.fr>:

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> >
> > Imagine creating computer synthesized music that way, or worse yet,
> > having to rely upon nightly batch processing with the punched cards.
>
> I had a similar experience in the early 80's, when using
> Music V on a PDP11... used to start sound synthesis in
> the evening, and was able to hear the result the next morning...
>
> JB
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