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Subject: Bomb Squad

From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...
Date: 1999-10-30

I bet it is programmed in "decades" (modulo 10). You are hearing
the 'rounding-off' as the decades roll from 0>>9 or 9>>0.

The R.A.F. will be knocking on your door.

Paul S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul R Bower <vulture.squadron@...>
To: motm@onelist.com <motm@onelist.com>
Date: Friday, October 29, 1999 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: [motm] More VCA blabbering (kind of)


>From: "Paul R Bower" <vulture.squadron@...>
>
>hello troops
>i think i might have something constructive to say (for a change:-)
>following on from the VCA lin / log thing, i have a question:
>on and off all evening i've been tarting around plumbing my motm (#100,
>#120, #410 so far heh heh) into my Pulse Generator (military surplus
jiggery
>pokery) which works in some kind of bizarre decade scale - obviously.
anyway
>my question is this - using the random output of my motm#100 into the input
>of any vco, even a Hz/V one (ish), I get a good old fashioned randomy sort
>of sequence. plug this same random output intothe PG52B (pulse geny) and i
>get a strange and rather nice middle eastern tempered random output,
>disimilar from a normal VCO. now then
>1) am i mad
>2) am i wrong in thinking that random x anything = still random (cos that's
>what it seems)
>3) did the RAF really design their V Bomber communications systems based on
>some kind of gamelan scale (i'm in deep doo doo if this one's right)
>
>cheers paulb (now i have to go build a pile of BNC to Jack cables...)
>
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