MOTM

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, J. Larry Hendry wrote:

> My mistake.  Someone using the ID "Old Crow" has recently bid on some old
> PAiA stuff on e-bay.  Silly stooge me.  I assumed it was you. <foolish
> embarrassed grin>

  Well, I did bid on a couple things, mainly items I could hack into other
things.  I never did win any of the auctions, except for the Oz, which I
turned into a tiny MIDI controller.  Paia stuff goes for ridiculous
amounts of money on ebay, but then again so do other things.  I sold six
$1 coffee cans for over $50 each on ebay.  Absurd.

  These days I find it easier to bid on something like a Korg Poly61 for
$100 or so to obtain a platform for building my own synthesizers. Buy old
poly61, remove front panel and synth voice circuitry, and you have a wood
case, a keyboard that doubtless needs contact cleaning and a power supply,
as well as a joystick (though I would prefer a pair of wheels) all ready
for working into a new machine.

Crow

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