- Boss RE20 Space Echo effects pedal - 2 Updates
- Consumer electronics "war stories" - 2 Updates
| N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk>: Dec 08 03:55PM The DSP works giving a spacey output but only when the Intensity control is at 3/4 to full, so too much, and straight through input sound component very low level. Straight through, effects off, is good normal signal level out. The pots and switches check out ok, the mode switch is resistive and does the mode change ok. |
| N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk>: Dec 08 04:32PM Looking closer, corrossion product from beer or whatever near the input and SMD FET and a 4558, gives something non-dsp, to probe tomorrow, no mention of beer-swilling of course. |
| Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com>: Dec 07 05:21PM > so the mechanism didn't sag at all, the problem disappeared. Called > up Kenwood and they put out a mod kit that included strong springs > which also didn't allow any downward movement of the mechanism. Was that the type with the CD cartridge, like a trunked automotive unit? Those things were all such garbage. |
| Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu>: Dec 07 05:40PM -0600 Mike Tomlinson wrote: > Good fun. Thanks for posting that. > Number 10 reminded me of this: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire Ah, we had a couple of those. We had a fairly large 360 system at Washington University. 1401 and 7094, then 360/50 and then 360/65. One of the routines that made one think of CIA dead drops in the middle of the night was the routine for printing paychecks. (I guess vendor checks were similar, too.) They had the box of continuous form checks locked in a bank vault in the basement of the administration building. The box was taped shut with signatures across the seal. When they opened the box, two people had to be present and they had to sign a log sheet with the serial number of the top check. They carried the box to the computer center, loaded it into the printer and the program printed a sample form with VOID-- VOID--VOID all across it, but other info in the right place so they could align the forms. When all was OK, they told the program to print the checks. Then, they had to fill out and sign the log sheet reporting which forms serial # were used in the aligning process and the first and last forms serial # of the printed check run. Then the whole process was reversed to get the box sealed and locked into the vault. During the whole process, nobody was ever supposed to leave the side of the printer. Well, imagine the confusion when in the middle of the print run the printer started sparking and set the continuous forms checks on fire! I heard about this 2nd hand, but apparently the accounting guys were running around like decapitated chickens! They didn't even know how to properly log what had happened. I'm pretty sure we had another paper on fire event, but it was just standard print output that time. Jon |
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