I already have 2 solar panels on order fo my studio roof-top to power my
computer and MOTM if all else fails. "Sorry wife, we can't have light or the
radio tonight. I've got to turn on the old MOTM" If its ever time to
go...I'll go out patchin'
On the real side, I have seriously looked at my whole spending habits for
the last couple of years and how I can bring the total spent down a little.
Well I can honestly say that in my studio full of "Classics" and "Hard to
finds" I look to my MOTM and other modulars as the best money spent. I have
felt a part of these things because I learned basic things about electronics
by building them and my knowledge was increased as they were brought to
electrical life by myself...the Creator (you know what I mean) This
confidence and participation in even the small way of assembly (compared to
the ideas and design process) makes me feel proud to be an independant
musician in this country, building and using my own gear for recordings, and
teaching myself the bigger sonic and philosophical picture on my own road at
my own pace. Thanks very much to Paul and the rest of you knuckleheads for
keeping things interesting for me in times of grief and for always providing
a different view into our favorite subject MOTM and even other things
occassionally HA.
Thomas White
I will continue to buy MOTM as much as I can in support of my Modular, Paul
(Proud American) and my country in time of finacial struggle. I hope you
will all do the same. I know it can sure be ominous with the talks of bio
this and nuclear that, but I still gotta have the 6 input ringmod, micro VCO
and the dual VCA!!! Not to mention the VC Phaser and VC ADSR and Sequencer
and SEM VCF and....
>From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
>To: "MOTM listserv" <motm@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [motm] No worry yet
>Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 17:52:53 -0500
>
>Just to clarify:
>
>I have ZERO plans to "slow down" or "wind down" or "shut down". I DO have
>plans to "slow down" and
>take a wait-and-see attitude.
>
>This mainly involves not ordering lots of expensive parts (like pots) in
>the
>near term. So kits may
>run out 4 months from now, and be out for 3-4 weeks. This is better than
>having $30,000 worth of parts
>sitting in the garage and having sales be 20% of what they are now.
>
>I run on a 'cash' basis: by the time you see your kit/module, the parts
>have
>LONG been paid for. A plot
>of running profit versus time looks like a sawtooth :) You try to
>anticipate
>the 'peak' on the curve IF AND WHEN
>the market nosedives.
>
>What is probably going to happen (and I know MANY of you fall into this
>category, which worries me) is that
>'web authoring' jobs will disappear off the map, along with 80% of ALL
>Internet-related jobs. This trickles down
>to computers, routers, semis, memory, all sorts of things. Too many people
>last year saw too much money to be
>made. The bridge could only support so much weight. There is a finite
>amount
>of money to be made. People
>were under the impression 'the sky's the limit'. Ha, no one ASKED me! :)
>
>Also, electronics as a whole is a victim of their own 'bullets'. 300mm
>wafers at 0.18um can produce 80,000 op amps
>PER WAFER, and you can run 20 wafers/day. High-speed Fuji SMT
>pick-and-place
>machines can "stuff" a PC
>motherboard in 17 seconds and a DVD player in about 8 seconds. Electronics,
>when I was a kid, was a 'gee whiz'
>product sector with long lead-times. Factories now make this stuff so fast
>it's crazy (this is adjunct to the depressing
>fact that of the last 27 years of my career, the first 25yrs has EVERY
>product I worked on in a landfill, OBSOLETE).
>
>So, "industry" is just dealing with "overpopulation". American Airlines
>doesn't need 12 flights to SFA from DFW a day.
>Where can Intel go? Will ANYONE CARE if they have a 10GHz uP? ZZzzzzzzz.
>
>Sorry for the rant (triggered by Nortel laying off 15,000 MORE people
>today). Please don't, in ANY way, feel guilty
>or remorseful if you can't buy more modules, now or ever. If it all closed
>up tomorrow, I would STILL consider MOTM a
>FABULOUS SUCCESS. But I still want to ship Module #5000!!! (1/2 of the way
>there).
>
>Paul S.
>
>
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