[sdiy] My First Synth Project (more Geezer Stuff....)

[James Patchell]

Oh yes, I remember those days as well.  Built quite a few projects that way 
myself.  I was in high school when I started to use home etched PC 
boards...but I would paint the traces onto the board with a brush....

At 10:56 AM 6/7/2004 -0700, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
>Not bad.  I wish I had saved some of the stuff I built as a kid.  I
>remember doing *real* breadboard stuff.  I never actually used a true
>breadboard though, but the projects were built on pine boards.  Porcelain
>tube sockets screwed down, bakelite terminal strips for resistors and
>caps.  Even transistor stuff was done that way, well before I'd heard of
>"printed circuit boards", I would actually use wood screws and washers as
>connection points, ah the beauty of fahnstock clips.
>
>James Patchell <patchell at cox.net> wrote:
> >http://www.oldcrows.net/~patchell/FirstSynth/FirstSynth.html
> >
> >Some of the newbies might find this page interesting.  These are some
> >photos of some of the modules from my very first synth project.  I built
> >these from schematics for the Paia 2700.  The sequencer was the first
> >module I designed from the ground up (not based on anything else...).
> >
> >
> >
> >         -Jim
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