Wow. I traded a beautiful Takamine 12-string for a Zenith/Olivetti XT with a 20 Mb drive and DOS 3.2. The other guy got the better end of the deal moneywise, but it was the beginning of the education that led me to become a computer musician. I miss the guitar, but it was worth it.

I've got a box of drives in the 50-100 Mb range with old MIDI files on them from Win 3.1/95 days (and BIAB 7, which came on two floppies. I also have boxes and boxes of floppies with old software . . .). Need to get an IDE/USB case so I can get some of that stuff off and resurrect it.

I remember dreaming of recording to disk and of virtual effects simulators. ("Gee, if there was only a way to get audio into my PC.") That's why I still have the four-track RTR machine and the distortion stomp boxes. Maybe if I'd had an Apple II-e . . .

We've come a very long way in a very short time, haven't we?

R.

"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."