MOTM

Paul - All -

Yup - point taken.  Grid is not the term... you're absolutely correct... 
we mean panel width.

Bill and Will


On 1/10/2017 14:53, 'Paul Schreiber' synth1@... [motm] wrote:
>
> Well, I think 'grid' is misused here. You are talking panel widths.
>
> 'Grid' refers to all the MOTM pots and jacks aligning on BOTH 
> horizontal and vertical 'lines'.
>
> Back to the OP
>
> Without Roger's sales figures, it's hard to say which is more 
> 'popular', as this has 2 contexts: historically or *right this very 
> minute*.
>
> It would not surprise me if .com/MU overtook MOTM as 'popular' by say 
> 2012. There are somewhere around 10,500 MOTM modules + MOTM *format* 
> modules in the wild.
>
> Who knows what .com/MU is, with now Moon and COTK adding in, maybe 30,000?
>
> Paul S.
>
> OK, Guys - while I've got your ear(s), help me out here - Will and I 
> are necessarily MOTM-grid guys. Namely, 5U high by widths in 
> increments of "Units" (equals 1-3/4 in). The Moog grid is, of course, 
> 5U high, but by widths of 2-1/8 in. The history of these standards is 
> interesting and is part of the legacy of the Bell Telephone System. 
> But, however interesting, that is irrelevant here. My question is - in 
> your experience, what is the relative popularity of these standards - 
> the MOTM-grid vs the Moog-grid? thankyouverymuch Bill and WIll
>
>