Re: Simm sound

["Peter Thompson" <pt205@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

> Wanna talk vintage??
>
>I have a 64 bit tube RAM.  This beauty, circa 1954, still works
>and I have easily retro-fitted its cable to a simm socket.
>You wouldn't beleive it but to hear it, but the 44 millisecond
>access time actually works well to provide just the right high
>frequency roll-off in the digital domain to supress quantization
>and nyquist noise.  The power supply is a bitch, though.
>
>I've been searching surplus dealers and swap-meets to find more
>of these to increase my storage.
>
> - Floyd
>
>

I, of course, still use punched cards for my looping.  OK, the bandwidth
sucks and it's a pain if you drop them, but the vintage authenticity makes
grown men weep.

Pete
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Peter Thompson                pt205@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Wolfson College
Cambridge CB3 9BB

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