Well it all started on saturday gone, having a little browse on the famous auction site with my favorite search term "vintage, synth, synthesizer, computer & nearest first "
And what pops up, something I've wanted since the 80's, Korgs first sampler synthesizer, the same one dad said no to buying for me in 1986, well it was over £3000 at the time and it's only 20 miles away
Whats this got to do with old computers I hear you say, well this monster of a synthesizer reads 720k floppy disk's in some alien format, no bother I thought, I have a usb floppy drive that I used to make boot disks for my Akai samplers, the software is available to make the disks, hmmm after serveral hours with dosbox pulling out what little hair I have left I couldnt format any 720k floppys turns out it cant be done with at least my usb drive....grrrr
But wait, whats lurking in the corner of dear fathers loft, my old Gateway 2000, it has Dos on it and more importantly a floppy drive , 10 minutes later it's out of its box but noooo .... it now has a suntan, oddly the monitors fine but theres no way the wife is going to let me leave this setup looking this yellow, was bad enough sneaking another synth home!.
So theres no option, stripdown and cleanup, off to sally hair and beauty for a bottle of Peroxide cream, after getting some odd looks from the girl serving (bald and buying hair products) and being asked if I had or would like a sally card I went on my way home and started.
The results
Before
During
After
Not too shabby.