What is this thing?

Zeela · Post by **Zeela** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:51 pm

I found something on eBay that I havent seen before...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... eName=WDVW

What is it and what have they done to our beloved Vic?

// Zee

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 5:19 pm

Ooh. I've seen a picture of that before, but not live on eBay. It seems to be a system for synchronizing instruments etc with recording, maybe for overdubbing purposes. The rack has inputs and outputs for MIDI etc and a SMPL bus, whatever that is - Google can probably help you. Basically a professional music mastering system built on a VIC-20. Despite the custom keyboard, it probably was cheaper than other dedicated systems, and as you can see from the cartridge, it was a rather late product so the manufacturer could probably get dirt cheap VICs to modify and sell.

I suppose a such system would store any timing schemes and data onto disk or tape, but in that case you would need to get a disk drive yourself.

davidv_ · Post by **davidv_** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:07 pm

Another one of those:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Commodore-VIC-20-SM ... dZViewItem

No cartridge though... useless i guess?

Jaicen · Post by **Jaicen** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 5:03 am

Wow! A SMPTE timecode machine, now that is cool!
I imagine it probably is useless without the cartridge, but it's a damn fine piece of computer music history!

Post by **Jeff-20** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 11:37 am

The item was INVALID by the time I looked, but based on the description, I think we discussed it before. Check out this thread:

http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... hacks+mods