[sdiy] Re: WAY OT humour - New synth DIY site ?

[John L Marshall]

Re: WAY OT humour - New synth DIY site ?Remember those desktop calculators by Smith-Corona-Marchant, Burroughs and Frieden. Key in the correct calculation then listen to the march rhythm. I must be getting old.

Take care,
John
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Grant Richter 
  To: Paul Schreiber ; CHoaglin at aol.com 
  Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 7:48 AM
  Subject: [sdiy] Re: WAY OT humour - New synth DIY site ?


  I knew a software engineer who programmed a big relay array to play tunes - sort of. Just clicking but what a rhythm box! You could recognize "Shave and a haircut" and "Happy Birthday".

  Boredom does strange things to people on their lunch hour....



        HA! I designed a 672 channel telephone SLIC system (analog phone to T1). Each channel had 6 
        Aromat relays (3 for line, 3 for remote testing). That's 4032 per rack. The average central 
        office had 64 racks or 258,048 relays. 



      Funny, I thought these were usually used in outside plant enclosures, the 5 foot wide white boxes, for doing pair gain out miles away from the CO instead of running lots of copper. 

      -

      You need them at *both ends* :)

      SLC-96 and DMS-100 are typical pair-gain channel banks.

      Paul S.






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