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

[jbv]

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> That must have been quite an experience!

sure... often you had to wait overnight for 7 sec. of sound...
and you'd better set all the parameters of your MusicV patch
right from the beginning, otherwise you could end up with
a sine, or just random noise...

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>
> What type of PDP-11 was it, and what operating system was it running?
> What type of hardware did you use with the PDP-11 to listen to the
> result?  It would be fun to use one of my PDP-11s for music synthesis
> someday!  I think my 11/73 may still be working... the 11/44 needs its
> CPU repaired, but first I need to repair my logic analyzer's power
> supply and hack a set of probes to work with it.  Do you know if the
> Music V software still exists anywhere?
>

I'm afraid I don't remember anything of the sort...
That was when I was studying at Ircam in Paris,
and shortly after my arrival they upgraded to Digital Vax...
As for MusicV, AFAIK, Csound is the latest offspring...

JB