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Re: OLD FART LOOPERS (was average looper age)
>--- Tom Ritchford <tom@swirly.com> wrote:
>
>> When I first started sampling...
>> [clicks dentures together and wheezes]
>> we were sampling on a PDP-11!
>>
>> It had 64MB of memory and a 20MB removable disk
>> where the disk driver was the size of a washing machine!
>
>If it was the same disk drive I used on the old PDP at my school, it was
>only
>12MB. Had a disk pack that was about 2" tall that snapped into place with
>a
>handle on the top. The product name escapes my feeble memory.
hmm, I was PRETTY sure it was 20MB. it was an RLX something-or-other.
the PDP-11 was a GREAT machine -- I wrote a "complete" music
language in it called CLOD. the timing was all free-running
so if you added new elements into your piece, the pitch
of everything would drop -- it actually sounded great but
of course wasn't very disciplined.
/t
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