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Subject: Re: Re: the joy of rackmount

From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...
Date: 1999-10-11

Let's see, you signed up yourself? :)

How about your cat?

Paul S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul R Bower <vulture.squadron@...>
To: motm@onelist.com <motm@onelist.com>
Date: Monday, October 11, 1999 3:28 PM
Subject: [motm] Re: the joy of rackmount


>From: "Paul R Bower" <vulture.squadron@...>
>
>
>
>>From: Christopher Jeris <cjeris@...>
>(I emailed Doepfer a while ago to ask them how wide was a Eurorack
>>horizontal unit, and they said 5.08mm = 0.2". Was the European standard
>>really designed around inches and feet too ??)
>
>
>yep, it's the same standard originally designed for military /
>telecommunications - it's probably an early NATO protocol.
>we didn't decimalise until the early seventies, we still work in both
>systems - the trick is not to get them mixed up ;-)
>by the way, on the 50% discount front, if i've started with my own personal
>system (can't wait) but would like to get a couple of the processing
modules
>for the studio where i work - does this count as an introduction..?
>cheers
>paul
>
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