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When you couldn't afford to buy the music you loved because your allowance was not nearly enough to cover the cost of the vinyl.
When you were too young to be mowing lawnsMowing lawns to be able to finally afford said vinyl.
I was mowing a couple of lawns in the neighborhood when I was nine, that was in '79.When you were too young to be mowing lawns
How do I post here rather than just reply?You remember 8 track tapes.
Figured it out.How do I post here rather than just reply?
54 series was MIL-spec (-40 to 125 C) 74 is commercial (-40 to 85 C) 4000 series worked at 5V but with very low performance. Later came 74HC and 74AC compatible CMOS. I was interested in these as they worked at 1.5V. However, ended up using a 3.3V micro controller and a micro power boost converter for the project.40xx series CMOS logic from RCA (my dad worked at the Sarnoff labs) and COSMAC computers. Why RCA didn't make the 40xx series pin-for-pin compatible with the 74xx series, I'll never understand. Later supplanted by the 54xx series CMOS, which is backward compatible with the 74s.
Did you and I talk about a storage unit that got sold out from under you with the kit being sold on ebay to someone (me) in China?I built one in '77 I think. It was my favorite. Second stage never failed to ignite. For the life of me I can't remember what happened to it.
The person I spoke to recovered the booster in a subsequent ebay auction, and cloned the sustainer... I still have the original's sustainer, and need to build a booster (with plans to do so, when I get back stateside with it).Not me. But it would have been sad if it had happened.
Never did but did have a couple of records that were QS encoded. Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra by Synergy (aka Larry Fast). Still one of my favorite albums of all time.owned quadraphonic stereo gear
I have that album. I prefer Cords over ERfRO, myself, but do like it a lot! (Still have both, along with several other Synergy LPs in vinyl.)Never did but did have a couple of records that were QS encoded. Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra by Synergy (aka Larry Fast). Still one of my favorite albums of all time.
Cords has its place, as do the others. I think I have them all on vinyl, all the way through Metropolitan Suite and all but Computer Experiments Vol. 1 (don’t really care for that one all that much) on CD, as well as Reconstructed Artifacts which, so far as I know was never released on vinyl. That latter has digital synth re-recordings of pieces from several of the albums, though it is dominated by tracks from ERRO. It has a killer live version of Flight of the Looking Glass originally on Audion.I have that album. I prefer Cords over ERfRO, myself, but do like it a lot! (Still have both, along with several other Synergy LPs in vinyl.)
Electronic Realizations for Rock OrchestraCords has its place, as do the others. I think I have them all on vinyl, all the way through Metropolitan Suite and all but Computer Experiments Vol. 1 (don’t really care for that one all that much) on CD, as well as Reconstructed Artifacts which, so far as I know was never released on vinyl. That latter has digital synth re-recordings of pieces from several of the albums, though it is dominated by tracks from ERRO. It has a killer live version of Flight of the Looking Glass originally on Audion.
The first four Synergy albums are on topic for this thread….
You would have "loved" sham battle in the gym.-you sincerely hoped that 'dodgeball' wasn't on the docket for Gym day in Junior High (PE and Middle School are today's terms) or high school. There was also the appropriately named 'murderball': six balls, not one or two. Likewise with 'free swim' or 'water polo' (AKA drown-a-geek) on swim day. Physical education and I did not agree too well until three or four decades later.
-you ran behind the mosquito control truck as a kid, inhaling the fumes because what's not to like about breathing chlorinated carbon compounds?
Okay, we were not terribly well-informed...
The biggest problem with quad (besides having to spend twice as much on audio gear) was that very little was recorded in it. Notable exception: ELP's Brain Salad Surgery. The end of Karn Evil 9 Third Impression was awesome in quad... the sound just circled around the room faster and faster. Mind blowing... haven't heard anything like that since.owned quadraphonic stereo gear
My parents kicked me out of the house when THEY moved... no way I was going to be going back. Sink or swim... mostly treading water for a couple of years.Moving out of the house and renting your first apartment.
Then moving back a couple of months later when you ran out of money.
The biggest problem with quad (besides having to spend twice as much on audio gear) was that very little was recorded in it. Notable exception: ELP's Brain Salad Surgery. The end of Karn Evil 9 Third Impression was awesome in quad... the sound just circled around the room faster and faster. Mind blowing... haven't heard anything like that since.
In Vegas. I love watching Diamonds are Forever. Comparing Vegas then to now is amazing.
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