Old tech = new tech
On my desk I currently have a Casio VL-Tone1 quite the finest non pocketable calculator in the world ever. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_VL-1. Back in 1980 I would spend hours and hours at boarding school recreating the hits on top of the pops (and for the less litterate typing in esso and BooBs). If there is one piece of technology that has influenced bedroom synth music (apart from the DX7 & Moog) it is this.
( rwbthatisme is on holiday this week, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 21:59, 7 replies)

Wow!
I used to have one of those! Wonderful things. I loaned mine to the son of a (now 6 years ex-) girlfriend. Expect it's fucked by now.
(barbedwiretumbleweed Fast 'n' Bulbous!, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 22:06, closed)

ok I know I went to a posh private school when I was a kid but reading through wikipedia-bollocks it said that it used to retail at £150, now if I do some compound interest (on the vl-tone of course!), at 5% inflation over thirty years that would make the VL-Tone worth £650 in todays money, holly shit those ipads are cheap! (for which I think we have to thank chairman mao!)
( rwbthatisme is on holiday this week, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 22:18, closed)

£150? Wiki says $150.
But I remember something nearer £30. But even that was a fair wedge for a schoolkid in 1981.
(barbedwiretumbleweed Fast 'n' Bulbous!, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 0:16, closed)

yup I meant $ but Shift3 is about the same place on a keyboard as Shift4 after a bottle of 2008...
( rwbthatisme is on holiday this week, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 0:27, closed)

So the wine isn't old school?
Hope it's one for drinking and not laying down.
(barbedwiretumbleweed Fast 'n' Bulbous!, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 0:44, closed)

Beaujolais
Newbollocks?
(Large Hardon Collider Bah Bloody Humbug, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 1:26, closed)

Bunga Bunga!
AC Milan are now i Bunga Bunga or The Rubys.
(barbedwiretumbleweed Fast 'n' Bulbous!, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:44, closed)