In no way do I believe that Paul was (or would!) "sit on" 3340s (not to
mention the several other CEMs that he "claims" to have found on a visit to
Doug Curtis "storage shed").
Why? For one reason, because I first heard about Synthesis Technologies
THROUGH OnChip Systems (Doug Curtis) when I made an inquiry (via mail) to
them about the availability of CEM ICs. When I first got on synth-diy about 2
& 1/2 years ago, Paul was beginning to talk about the idea of building
modular kits (weren't you thinking of a super high end kit called Titan?) and
wanted to make a new run of 3340s for use in such a modular -- I remember
there being a lot of list interest in the 3340s that didn't pan out to the
several thousand dollars required to retool.
As I recall Paul offered 3340s for the whole year of 1997 (I bought some for
$16, and a bunch of hard sync rejects for $4.00 each!!!!!). I spent well over
a hundred dollars buying stuff from Paul before the first MOTM module was
shipped, I've also bought several "bonus boxes" of Paul's junk (whenever he
cleans out his work room -- hence the recent references) as well as all my
MOTM stuff and have never felt that Paul has tried to rip me off -- ever!
I also believe that if Paul had known of these 3340s he would have used them
in the MOTM VCO, or at least proposed the idea. A few months ago I bought
several MOTM 300 PCB rejects (for $4.00 each), but the cost of: the MAT 02,
two OP 275s, LT 1013 and the tempco is well over what I imagine a 3340
costing -- if you cost it out, you'll see that this is no way to save money.
But I do like your choice of screen name. I bought several 3310s from Paul
(since I really like them!) before he ran out of them. It was easy since he
posted several times to the list (either MOTM or DIY) that he was running low
and almost out -- I guess I was lucky to be on the list, and lucky to pay
attention.
I may be a stooge, but I ain't stupid,
JB
In a message dated 9/16/99 8:48:57 PM,
CEM3310@... writes:
>d) put them on your head, look in the mirror and ask yourself if you think
>
>we're all so stupid believing you haven't been sitting on them all the
>while.
>