[sdiy] Art of electronics computer

[Harry Bissell]

I might add that in my eprom solution... I was using the characters to indicate musical keys... a b c d e f g and using + and - to indicate
flat or sharp... That goes beyond HEX a bit...


H^) harry


----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron Lanterman <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu>
To: synthdiy diy <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:40:59 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Art of electronics computer

On Jan 9, 2012, at 4:08 PM, David G Dixon wrote:

> I don't know of a direct 'hex' driver chip that takes 4 bit  binary and outputs this character set. There ~was~ one (once) 
> for hex on an LCD display.
> 
> The CD4511 is a good example of a driver that will NOT display hex characters. The "a" - "f" are blank...

When I do the history lecture in my "Electronics for Music Synthesis" class, I always talk about how musicians must have responded to working with the Ensoniq Mirage... ;)

- Aaron
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