[sdiy] Timbreon and firmware synth

[KA4HJH]

>Apple G3 boards are readily available, also have the Forth based
>OpenFirmware plus take standard PCI cards and memory.  For this you'd want
>to pick a Biege G3 board as it has onboard video also.  Complete desktop
>Beige G3's are in the $100 range these days.  They're a bit faster then a
>typical sparcstation4 or 5.

We bought a pallete of Beige G3's at a university auction for $40 apiece
over a year ago. I'm waiting for later models to fall into that price range.

At 1:36 PM +1030 3/10/05, Batz Goodfortune wrote:
>I've also tried the trick that's spoze to work with video tape. Buggered if
>I can get that to work. A piece of 1/2 inch video tape is spoze to be
>slightly conductive and increases fairly lineally with length. I couldn't
>get anything useful out of that.

The only thing I can think of here that would be conductive is the
back-coating on tape. Or the black anti-static bags John mentioned.

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Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"