It's not even a bad song!
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7 inch vinyl single art for the 1983 song Letric Metric by Peter Griffin
Family Guys aside, I adore that the cover for this was very clearly done by taking a photo of the lower left corner of a TRS-80 display. You can see where the curvature stops near the edges of the picture sleeve!
I can't possibly figure out how to even try to explain how this works, so I'm going to let the manual do the talking.
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A green monochrome monitor displays instructions on how to use the Greengate Waveform Processor. Key commands, etc.
It does have a help screen! But if you don't know what any of this means you're probably still going to be lost without the manual
A green monochrome monitor displays 3 boxes, one displays harmonics, one contains an ADSR envelope, and one displays a live section of a waveform, and under the boxes is a long line, indicating the full waveform.
If you thought FL Studio was confusing you might be advised to stay away from the Greengate waveform processor
Today I messed around a bit with BASIC on the Atari 2600! A semi-obscure oddity from 1979, you get 9 lines and around 50 bytes to write your own programs. As you can imagine it's incredibly limited, but surprisingly intuitive.
Sure! Check my band out at our website:
superphonerecordings.com
And our bandcamp:
superphone.bandcamp.com
Things I've done in the past 7 months number 2: Been featured on hackaday with @tubetime.bsky.social for his work on the greengate clone and my use of it:
hackaday.com/2024/10/14/s...
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The computer that controlled the animatronics at Chuck E Cheese in the 80s sits on a table next to a reel to reel tape drive that it loads its data from
Macintosh librarian shields maccy's eyes from crusty, a totally grodalated mac SE/30 as they pose for a photo together
Maccy and Crusty together again, this time being held by the othe half of the Crusty team. CJ
Adrian from the digital basement sits at a laptop while AJ from forgotten machines is in the background
Other pics; featuring in no particular order: the chuck e cheese computer, the meeting of crusty the mac and maccy, and floppy imaging shenanigans in the lobby
I'm in the exhibit hall at vintage computer festival midwest, standing next to my table. On the table is an apple II and the greengate sampler.
Things I've done on the past 7 months number 1: VCF Midwest! I brought the Greengate sampler and people loved it!
Hello I'm still here! Welcome to all the new folks trickling in
I'm also trans, who would've thought that a trans person would this many synthesizers?
The foreground of my basement music studio, occupied by a pair of Apple 2 computers, as well as 3 synthesizer keyboards and a sampler keyboard. I stand in the background holding my bass guitar.
The studio came out pretty well I'd say
A double A battery that's been in a garage for 40 years, the battery has thoroughly leaked onto everything around it and is so corroded that the plastic coating with graphics on it has been eaten through entirely.
I would hazard a guess that this used to be a battery
A white program cassette tape from Apple, dated 1979. The tape is titled "Infinite Number of Monkeys"
A terrifying concept
Your reputation precedes you, mister time!
An apple IIe computer displaying a 3D audio waveform, sat next to the piano keyboard of a digital sampler, which is wired into the back.
Behold, it's complete!
Special place in hell for whoever placed that DIP connector there by the way
A 61 key piano keyboard with the text "Greengate productions DS:3" on it sits in the center of the floor.
The DIP 16 connector attached to the keyboard for interfacing with the computer.
Behold! The Greengate DS:3 sampler keyboard! You ever wanted to turn your apple II into a Fairlight-adjacent sampler? Now you can!
An overhead shot of an AM radio, it consists of a wooden base with a die cast scale model of the NHK concert hall in Tokyo.
A brass plaquard on the front of the radio reads; "To Mr P. Pierman, as a token of our appreciation, October 16th 1973. Kichiro Ono, President of NHK, Tokyo, JAPAN"
A commemorative AM radio featuring a die cast scale model of NHK hall in Tokyo! Gifted to one Mr Pierman by the president of the company in 1973
The front of a package of Daewoo branded sterile latex surgical gloves.
The back of a packahe of sterile latex surgical gloves. The manufacture date is April 1988, expires March of 1991.
Vintage latex gloves anyone?
I lived dw
Photo of me, center frame, in the hospital, heart monitor on a table in the background. I lived!
I've heard of con crud, but this is ridiculous!
I'm sitting in from of my apple II, equipped with a synthesizer in the conference hall during vintage computer festival midwest.
Had a great time at VCF midwest! Thanks to everyone that showed :)
An apple IIe computer rests in a dark room lit by a lone desk lamp. On the screen is a program printing alternating sine waves out of text characters.
Nothing like an 80 column ASCII sine wave program to wind down in the evening
A complex synth setup. An apple II sits center, decked out with monitor, disk drive, and other peripherals. An oscilloscope rests next to a dot matrix printer to the left, while a wooden finish 44 key synthesizer keyboard is on the right.
I dabble...
The superphone 7800, an ungodly combo of a phone, clock, and calculator crammed in a GTE automatic electric case. Underneath is a zoom telephonics 9600 baud modem, in operation.
My pride and joy, the superphone 7800! An absurd combo phone, calculator and clock/calender from 1983! Seen here resting on my 9600 baud modem I use for dial up and BBSing.
A corkboard on the wall with an 80s styled etched woodgrain sign that says "Thank you for not smoking" pinned on it among other notes and papers. A strip of punched tape reading "VCFMW 2022" can also be seen.
One of many signs, trinkets, and papers on my studio corkboard. The irony of keeping this around 40 year old electronics is not lost on me.
The exposed PCB of a late 70s video terminal, keyboard side.
A dirty paper towel is on the left, a couple of keycaps sit atop, whole a pile sits to the right, ready for cleaning. A q-tip can be seen in-frame, dirtied from cleaning duties.
The backside of a late 70s video terminal PCB. An abundance of traces without solder mask can be seen, as well as a zilog Z80 and a host of glue logic.
The reassembled video terminal, The Hal DS-2000 KSR sits center frame. Nice and clean!
Throwback to 2018 when I finally got the time to open up, examine, and clean up my Hal DS-2000 KSR video TTY! A beautiful little terminal and very compact. Only one PCB and a daughterboard! The keyboard and terminal logic are on one board, on 2 separate sides!
Thanks! That belonged to my uncle back in the 80s. I bang out music with my bandmates on that synth at! superphonerecordings.com
