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Hi Peter,

Yes I understand this is not much data. Sorry, I couldn't find any better
word for "persistent storage" than "hard drive"...

I guess it was cheaper to keep the patches this way than really persisting
the data on whatever medium.

I now wonder if the new synths are still built this way...

Thanks a lot!

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Peter Korsten <peter@severity-one.com>wrote:

>
>
> Op 12-3-2011 20:14, Jerome St-Pierre schreef:
>
>
> > But I still have another stupid question. I don't understand how removing
> > the battery could affect the patches? Aren't they saved on some kind of
> hard
> > drive? Or are they really kept loaded in memory with the battery?
>
> A hard drive? We're talking about a few kilobytes, at most, of data.
> Even in 1997, when the AN1x first came out, a hard disc would have a
> capacity of several gigabytes, which is in a totally different league.
>
> (1 kilobyte: 1024 bytes; 1 megabyte: 1024 kilobytes; 1 gigabyte: 1024
> megabytes.)
>
> So yes, it's just a little bit of memory backed up by a battery. Today,
> I saw the 'low battery' warning for the first time. Have had the AN1x
> since 1998...
>
> - Peter
>  
>



-- 
J�r�me St-Pierre


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