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Re: Ancient Serges? (long)

2001-03-20 by (Kyle Jarger)

Thanks Matt for starting this list!
I'm alt-mode's friend with the early Serge system. I've got about four panels of them. When I received the system it was in pieces, as if someone had never gotten around to finishing putting it together. It has been a while since I spoke with Rex, but I seem to recall that the fact that it has "unique" potentiometers (in that they are all metal, they mount on the backs of the PC Board and have really long skinny metal shafts) makes it very early. It has the "array of holes" face plates, where the paper label covers unused holes. Rex told me also that this system had pin or tip jacks originally, but that someone had assembled mine with banana jacks. Unfortunately the original labels/markings did not come with it, so I can only guess what they looked like originally.
If anyone knows any more about the vintage of such a system, please let me know. I guess I'm mostly curious to find out if this system was one of the first (from the balcony and frying pan build), or a production unit from later.
Even though the real names of the modules is in question (no labels came with it), I think the modules are:
VCO X3
COMPARATOR
SCHMITT TRIGGER
TRIPLE WAVESHAPER
DUAL MIXER X2
VCF X3
RING MODULATOR
TRIPLE VCA
DUAL PROCESSOR
SEND AND RECEIVE
PEAK AND TROUGH
BI-DIRECTIONAL ROUTER
ENVELOPE GENERATOR
DUAL POSITIVE SLEW
DUAL NEGATIVE SLEW
SEQUENCER
SEQUENCER PROGRAMMER
Kyle Jarger
jkjelec@...
JKJ Electronics
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