Re: [AH] Anyone heard of the Logistics Synthesizer?

From Kenny Balys
Sent Wed, Sep 12th 2018, 18:08

I do not know anything specific about this company or its products.

I do have plenty of experience with different bus backplane based
computer systems from my signal processing and remote sensing days.

What is being offered here are a pair of S100 based peripheral boards
that require a host CPU and some code to perform any function.

You would need an S100 backplane, host CPU, a case and power supply
just for starters.

As a good chunk of the text went into description of the power requirements
and the overly large power regulator, this tells me that the design engineer
also wrote that text. So my guess is, yes, they made some and (foolishly)
required the engineer to communicate with humans.

S100 based computers were really the beginning of formal home computing.
Before that it was wild boffins banging things together salvaged from
their lab at the local secret research program.

Something like this puts one in the territory of the Altair S100 or its
clone the IMSAI 8080. (the film War Games features an S100 computer)

If you were planning on building a S100 system around these cards I
would love to hear more about it and even help. (if you need it)

Cheers,
./k

On 12.09.18 17:02 , Joan Touzet wrote:
> Trying to track down any info on this 1977 digital/DSP S-100 bus based synth for a friend:
>
> https://archive.org/details/TNM_Music__Speech_Audio_synthesizer_-_Logistics__20170915_0481
>
> It was definitely shown at at least one show in 1977 (same show had an apple computer booth)
>
> There was an ad produced for it - see above
>
> Not sure if it ever saw release or sold very many
>
> "People's computers" magazine vol 5 no 6 (May-June 1977) has pictures from the trade show as well (the magazine is scanned from Stanford's collection)
>
> Let me know,
> Joan
>