<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/17/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Arnold</b> <<a href="mailto:xyzzy@sysabend.org">xyzzy@sysabend.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Here's a weird one for yah.<br><br>So, a friend of mine is going to Mills College. Being a synth-geek he of
<br>course hunted down The Buchla.<br><br>Its status : It doesnt work. Paperwork is hard to find on it, they may have<br>some but its missing or very scarce. Whats worse is they mostly dont care<br>about the unit. However, they are interested in it working again.
<br><br>They also have a largeish Moog system that is in use for classes. It has<br>several VCOs out. I've volunteered to work on them if only to get access to<br>the Buchla. Personally I'd love to work on the Buchla too, but I also
<br>realise that this particular machine is part of Electronic Music's heritage<br>and there are definatly people better qualified to work on it than me.<br><br>I guess I'm sending this email to see who would be interested in working on
<br>this guy for probably little or no money. Perhaps I'm hoping that Buchla<br>himself or people who work with him might volunteer. I know there are a lot<br>of people who'd love to know details of the modules in it so at least
<br>I can try and document whats there.<br><br>--<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------<br>- Tom Arnold - Free Synth DIY webspace <a href="http://www.sdiy.org">http://www.sdiy.org</a>
<br>- SynthGeek -<br>- BBD Fanatic - "...is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?"<br>- echo evho wjxo - Juanita Shrugs. "What's the difference?"<br>--------------------<br><br></blockquote>
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<div><br>I'm definitely NOT a Buchla expert, but at least I know which end of the soldering iron to hold ("don't grab the shiny end, don't grab the shiny end, got it"). I'll volunteer if I can be of any assistance.
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<div>Tim (soldering:keep the shiny end down, racing:keep the shiny side up) Servo<br>-- <br>"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein </div>