[sdiy] Harald Bode collaboration with Bob Moog

[Magnus Danielson]

thx1138 wrote:
> On 8/22/09 11:39 AM, "Magnus Danielson" <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 
>> thx1138 wrote:
>>> Hi SDIY folks,
>>>
>>> I worked with Harald Bode in Tonnawanda NY, while I was on summer break when
>>> I was a undergraduate at UCLA in early 1971.
>>>
>>> He and Bob were working on projects that Harald had me work on.
>>>
>>> I was converting a Inductor based Vocoder to Active filter designs.
>> Was that Haralds design that he did for Bob?
>>
>>> Does any one have Harald's Patent info for US and Germany?
>>>
>>> My guess is that Harald and Bob had many shared ideas back in those days.
>> If you go to http://ep.espacenet.com and search for Harald E W Bode you
>> get 20 patents, you may enjoy looking at them (they are available
>> directly from there, both US and DE versions). Aaron already gave you
>> the number for what is obviously from the title is a Vocoder patent.
>>
>> Haven't looked at the other patents, but maybe you will recognice what
>> you see there from when you worked together.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Magnus
> Thanks for your inputs.
> 
> I did not realize at the time that Harald and Bob were onto something that
> would consume so much of my life as well.

Thanks for an interesting post. Interesting cross-section of folks, 
brands and products.

I assume you have been doing a bit of the 56k DSP in your days...

> Sorry for the rambling here, I drank a whole pot of coffee and was feeling a
> bit chatty.

I think we can live with that. :)

Cheers,
Magnus