SergeModular

Steven

> I was doing a lot of the graphical layout for the paper-faced graphics in
> 77-78. I don't remember doing any TKB graphics offhand, though that
> could just be my faulty memory banks. And it would not have been made
> with the earliest paper-faced design work.

The early paper faced are the ones with the graphic symbols,
and the later ones are the ones with just rectangular boxes around
the outputs? The TKB on page 17 of the "late 70s catalogue"
is the rectangular box type, so that sounds right.

> The TKB was either the transitional paper-face or it came in around
> the time we switched to silkscreen. I'd say there's a pretty good
> chance that there are some paper-faced TKB's out there.

I'm very confused about when the screen printing came in? I've
seen paper faces Serges with fully punched front panels, and I've
seen "81 Series" Serges with fully punched panels and silvery
stick-on panel facias over the top. Were there some silk screened
ones in between, or did they come later?

> Personally I think the paper-face modules sound subtly superior
> to the later silkscreened versions.

In the case of the TKB, the features changed too, and that might be
the major consideration. Early ones apparently have two reset
inputs, two clock inputs and no touch pressure. When the touch
pressure output was added, one of the clock inputs was lost.



Steve