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Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved
Date	2025-11-12 10:46 +0100
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On 2025-11-10 01:58, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> How’s this for a “cold case”
> <https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/sound-cards/diy-amiga-sound-sampler-circuit-mystery-solved-32-years-later-magazine-instructions-had-key-component-spec-typos>:
> an issue of “CU Amiga” magazine from 1993 had a project to let you
> build your own audio sampler -- only it never worked.
> 
> One of those hackers who tried, and failed, to follow the project at
> the time recently revisited it, and delved deeper into trying to
> figure out why the completed project did nothing but crash his
> machine. He found a couple of errors in capacitor values, particularly
> one that threw a clock frequency way off -- instead of 30kHz, it was
> putting out only 287Hz.
> 
> After fixing these problems, he finally had his working sampler!
> 
> Worth noting that one of those typos was pointed out in the subsequent
> magazine issue, but it’s not clear that the other one was ever
> corrected. Without that fix, it’s hard to see how anyone could have
> successfully built the project. Did all those who failed simply chalk
> it up to their own (assumed) lack of ability?
> 
> Imagine all those young, budding electronics engineers who were put
> off that career for life, because they couldn’t figure out how to get
> this thing working ...

I wonder how many projects I made failed because of printing typos :-/

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-10 00:58 +0000
  Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-11-11 16:59 +0000
    Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-11 18:24 +0000
      Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-11-11 22:08 +0000
        Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-12 02:51 +0000
          Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-12 10:52 +0100
            Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-11-12 13:14 +0000
              Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-13 18:47 +0100
        Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-12 10:45 +0100
          Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-12 18:47 +0000
  Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-12 10:46 +0100
    Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-12 18:40 +0000
      Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-11-12 11:00 -0800
        Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2025-11-12 23:22 +0000
          Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-13 19:03 +0100
      Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-13 18:52 +0100
  Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2025-11-14 23:43 -0500
    Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-15 14:54 +0100

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