[sdiy] Board View Software - could we make a database of this for vintage synths?

[Jean-Pierre Desrochers]

Thank you Terry for your kind offer to the SDY list .. 

J-Pierre 

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Le 2016-06-16 08:12, thx1138 at earthlink.net a écrit : 

> Hi Folks, 
> 
> As an ex-Oberheim Engineering employee, I have an archive of many of the synths schematics that we built. 
> 
> I left around the OB-8 point of product but I have quite a few drawings and manuals etc. I had a repair business after Oberheim, servicing 
> Oberheim, E-Mu, ARP, Moog, Seq. Circuits etc. 
> 
> I made copies of the firmware and have it still on 8" floppy disc, not sure my old Computer still works, but I have it still with the archives of E-Proms. 
> 
> If someone is in dire need , I can dig out some of this material, but I have not set up a server yet for archival purposes. I still have to work for a living after 
> Leaving Freescale/Motorola after 28 years. 
> 
> Neil Johnson and Paul Maddox know me well and can verify my pedigree in synth building and general DSP work arena. 
> 
> Many of the designs we did were based on Tape and Plastic film. Real schematic tools were way too expensive or primitive to do proper layout. 
> 
> I am happy to help where I can and fill in some blanks. I am based in Southern California still and have left Iosono-Sound and now I am COO-President of 
> Momentum Data Systems in Huntington Beach. Calif. If you are in the area, please come by and say hello. 
> 
> with Best regards, 
> 
> Terry Shultz 
> thx1138 at earthlink.net 
> 
>> On Jun 16, 2016, at 4:35 AM, Jack Jackson <jackdamery at hotmail.co.uk> wrote: 
>> 
>> Same here, I've drawn up most of the Jupiter 8 voice card in Eagle. Built some PCBs of the VCO section too. 
>> 
>> Best Regards, 
>> Jack Jackson 
>> 
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>> FROM: Synth-diy <synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl> on behalf of Florian Anwander <fanwander at mnet-online.de>
>> SENT: 16 June 2016 11:47
>> TO: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>> SUBJECT: Re: [sdiy] Board View Software - could we make a database of this for vintage synths? 
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> On 16.06.16 12:23 , Gordonjcp wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:54:24AM +0200, Ove Ridé wrote:
>>>> ...it would take a lot of manual work.
>>> Given how poor the quality of some scans of service manuals are, you might need to arrive at a "correct" diagram iteratively. It's the sort of thing a Github group would be good for.
>>> I've started redrawing the board for my MB383 in Kicad, simply to get an idea of what the hell is going on inside its digital section. Next up? Poly 800 maybe...?
>> Same here. I started redrawing the digital boards of the OB-Xa (mine 
>> does no longer boot up, and analyzing that with the existing schematics 
>> is close to impossible - at least for me). It is an awful work. I 
>> continue every three weeks, but after three or four hours I am fed up 
>> with it...
>> 
>> Florian
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