[time-nuts] Synthesizers

[Don Latham]

I have four PTS synthesizers. They're the bees knees...
fixed up an Arduino interface to control 3 of them. The fourth is a
special that I got through careless ebay picture and text analysis; good
for some parts.
Don

Jim Lux
> On 9/3/13 7:14 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote:
>> Ah the 8660's
>>
>>
>> Image 22 8660A's in two racks, was an fun tax payer, paid project :-)
>>
>> We where never told what the master clock was.
>>
>> Have S/N suffix 0009 in the garage.
>>
>> For you time nuts, a side hobby should be frequency nuts. How to
>> produce the cleanest synth'ed signal but be able to change it quickly.
>>
>> Made a few companies a lot of money and challenged engineers.
>>
>> It was quite the challenge in the late 60's into the 70's. There were
>> two
>> types of cusomers. Those that wanted uS switching time vs. those that
>> didn't care. Nothing inbetween.
>>
>
> When I was doing electronic warfare stuff in the 80s, microsecond
> switching was the order of the day, and PTS was our friend.  Nothing
> like direct synthesis (mix and add) for speed.  Waiting for the PLL to
> settle was for casual use.  As you say, either you need it or you don't,
> and there's not much demand for "settle in milliseconds".
>
>
>
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