[sdiy] Euro Synth Spec

[Andre Majorel]

On 2017-10-17 18:03 -0400, Mike HEQX wrote:

> I was reading over the Euro-Synth spec on Elby Designs today.
> Is this something that is now in practice? Who is now using
> the color scheme for I/O? Relating this to computers it was
> somewhat successful to have various colors assigned to all of
> the ports in the rear. To me almost strange, because who could
> confuse a parallel port with a serial port, etc.

"WTF ?" was my reaction the first time I saw an RS-232 port on a
DE-9. Or a Centronics port on a DB-25, for that matter !

If you're talking about

http://www.elby-designs.com/webtek/panther/panther-jacks.htm

I think that it would make panels look like angry fruit salads
and that might be counter-productive. A quick way to tell
outputs from inputs would be nice, though. Something like the
Cwejman S1 but using brightness rather than hue. Eg white for
outputs, black for inputs.

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André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/