I repaired a MArF a few years back, but nothing was like the undertaking of getting the 248-3206 from the Buchla garage sale working. I only know of a couple of these in existence and I don't know that any of them work. Someone bought the panels with only the motherboards attached. I have had them in my possession for more than 2 years. I had to design, assemble and troubleshoot the input board and 3 output boards for this beast. Each board is 14" x 6" or so, no small task. Today it worked for the first time.
Pictured is the working MArF as a reference. and the 2 panels from the double size expanded unit. A 3206 is a normal 1602 unit with an additional 4 space panel added to it. The expander adds another 16 stages of sliders and memory as well as 4 more output channels. The 6 total output channels can address the 32 steps in any way. This thing could be a 200 system's only source of modulation generators. LFOs, Envelopes, Sequencers, Quantizers, Voltage Processors are all possible. More infos to come.
Much more info to follow.
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impressive! doing the impossible again!
I just wish there was something similar available now
in anycase, more evidence that you are the incarnation of merlin
Merlin never had a backpack full of CMOS chips...or did he?
Good work! We stand by for more info as loyal disciples! :)
Isn't the one at Evergreen College was still up and running?
http://www.evergreen.edu/media/musictech/images/studios/marfbig03.jpg
I believe they sold that off only seconds after they took that picture. I don't know if it works.
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