Do you recognize this machine?

[Mark Thorson]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/251270200971

[Quadibloc]

On May 3, 5:51 pm, Mark Thorson <nos...@sonic.net> wrote:
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/251270200971

It's not a computer, although it is digital electronics. It's some
kind of music sequencer - from Russia.

If you zoom in, the columns of push buttons are labelled as follows:

rhumba
samba
mambo
cha-cha
jazz-rock
bossa nova
bit
fox trot 1
tango
sbun2
fox trot 2
begun
marsh
slow-rock
ballaga
waltz

The device itself is called an Estradin-11.

John Savard

[Quadibloc]

On May 3, 8:32 pm, Quadibloc <jsav...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

> The device itself is called an Estradin-11.

And you can even see it in action on YouTube!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl7r45tTH6E

There's more info here

http://www.ruskeys.net/eng/base/estrdn11.php

John Savard

[Mark Thorson]

Quadibloc wrote:
>
> On May 3, 5:51 pm, Mark Thorson <nos...@sonic.net> wrote:
> > http://www.ebay.com/itm/251270200971
>
> It's not a computer, although it is digital electronics. It's some
> kind of music sequencer - from Russia.

Thanks! I was thinking it was a 16-bit minicomputer.

[Quadibloc]

On May 4, 8:26 pm, Mark Thorson <nos...@sonic.net> wrote:

> Thanks!  I was thinking it was a 16-bit minicomputer.

Being able to read Russian helps. Incidentally, though, the printing
on the machine is in a fancy display font, which, although it looks
like a straight sans-serif, includes the alterations in the letter
forms normally found in italic printing. So, for example, lower-case T
rather than lower-case M is what is printed as m; lower-case D looks
like g instead of a small-capital Russian D (an ornate Greek delta). I
got fooled by that despite recognizing it, so I missed "ballad", and
rendered it as "ballaga" in my first post.

John Savard