Re[2]: Simm sound

[miguel.barella@poyry.com.br (MAT)]

IBM 11/30 style ferrite memory will also do!

Miguel

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Assunto: Re: Simm sound
Autor:  "Peter Thompson" <pt205@hermes.cam.ac.uk> na internet
Data:    03/02/1998 16:01


     
     
> 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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