[sdiy] Identification of an unknown MIDI CV interface

[Jason Proctor]

Interesting - my uncle worked at the Manchester Ferranti site up until the
company closed in 1993. IIRC he worked on a big IT project at Schiphol
Airport during that time.



On Wed, 28 Sept 2022 at 08:13, Mike Bryant <mbryant at futurehorizons.com>
wrote:

> The ULAs were developed at one of Ferranti's sites around Manchester, with
> early uses in the military side of the business.  But Clive was an early
> adopter of custom silicon and had already had customised versions of ICs
> from TI and ITT made, so using the ULA was a natural progression from
> there.  One wonders what sort of synthesiser he might have produced had he
> been more interested in creating music.
>
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> Gordonjcp
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> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Identification of an unknown MIDI CV interface
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 12:24:02PM +0100, Scott Young via Synth-diy wrote:
> > Not any help to the question, but the Ferranti name brought back
> memories - they had a big factory in Dundee here in Scotland close to where
> I grew up and I’m sure one of my mate’s dads worked for them for a while.
> Anyway I did a quick search of Ferranti Dundee and this very niche advert
> came up which made me smile - Dundee sits on a river with two bridges going
> across it, recreated here with sockets :-)
>
> Howdy Neighbour!
>
> Ferranti had a big factory not so terribly far from Timex, where they made
> the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum - which used Ferranti ULAs! I wonder if that was a
> contributing factor in the decision to use them.
>
> I'm guessing you're in roughly the same age demographic as me, and grew up
> with a ZX Spectrum along with everyone else at school ;-)
>
> --
> Gordonjcp
>
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