SergeModular

> I've had a little exposure to some older Serge stuff... a 10-panel system

had a few

> old blue plastic panels.. Now, I'm not exactly sure where the blue-face

panel

> period came in, but I think there was a time when those were available.

They might

> even have been home-brew panels for all I know. But they were standard

Serge

> modules behind, I'm pretty sure, at least for the vintage.

Can you describe the blue panels? I've never heard of these
before. Are they blue background or blue labelling on a white
(or metallic) background? Were they in the early style (with
triangles around the inputs), the 1976/7(?) style - plain
rectangular boxes around connectors with right-angled corners,
or the later style 1978/9 onwards (?) with rounded corners ?

> The sound quality of these were less than desirable IMO.
> For the first few years the build quality of the systems was very

uneven.... good

> to abysmal. This is due to their having builders that weren't very

experienced.

> That is not the case now, Rex sweats every little detail.

I read somewhere that some of the very early circuit boards were
dip soldered using a frying pan! It's a miracle they ever worked,
or that any of the builders lived to tell the tale...



Steve Ridley (again)