weird technology Re: [sdiy] cloning, copying, copyrights

[Neil Johnson]

Hi,

Thanks for the link.  Found this on their site:

      http://www.ciat-lonbarde.net/fyrall/index.html

Alan McKerchar brought one of these along to a synth diy UK meeting a  
few years back.. Very weird thing to 'play'.

Neil

On 29 Jul 2008, at 21:48, rdrake wrote:

> http://www.ciat-lonbarde.net:  beat ya to it...
>
>> ----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>> From: cheater00 at gmail.com
>> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>> Sent: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:20:24
>>
>> Harry,
>> Let's try making (up) a synth with as much weird
>> technology as possible.
>> My votes: eyelets and old-style synth keyboard
>> contacts made out of
>> hard wire. And knobs the same size (and material
>> and kind and model
>> number :P ) as they use on gas ovens now. And lots
>> of light bulbs! Who
>> needs resistors?
>> Don't forget about canned transistors and we're on
>> the right track.
>> And of course last but not least: the whole circuit
>> board has to be
>> out of fortified cardboard.
>>
>> D.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 6:10 PM,
>> <harrybissell at wowway.com> wrote:
>>> LOL... yeah they were called 'eyelets' and they
>> are a world of trouble.
>>>
>>> OTOH I remember an early ad that said
>>> "Tired of PTH troubles ??? .... try EYELETS"
>>>
>>> Last gasp for a dying technology.  We used to use
>> them where flexible
>>> wires entered the PCB, and for calibration points
>> (you soldered in
>>> additional resistors or capacitors...)
>>>
>>> H^) harry
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:23:13 -0500, Tim Daugard
>> wrote
>>>>> Well.. at one time you might have patented the
>> 'plated through hole' or
>>>>> some
>>>>> feature like that... otoh it might have been
>> called 'obvious'...
>>>>
>>>> Military equipment used rivet through hole 50+
>> years ago. The first
>>>> equipment I worked on had copper? rivets through
>> PCB holes. At least
>>>> once I had to repair a circuit by fixing solder
>> joints that had
>>>> broken on either side of the boaRD.
>>>>
>>>> Tim Daugard
>>>> AG4GZ 30.4078N 86.6227W Alt: 12 feet above MSL
>>>> http://home.sprintmail.com/~daugard/synth.htm
>>>>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~synthfred/h_toctop.htm
>> (Fred's online
>>>> edition)
>>>>
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>>>
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