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One must not exaggerate. Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena will not be twisting dials. With a spacecraft rounding Uranus at 42,000 m.p.h. 2 billion miles away, they prefer the sureness of digital to the romance of analog. And yet it is a small modern pleasure to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Joy of Analog | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

Perhaps a social stigma now attaches to digital watches. People see you walking around with a bunch of numbers on your wrist and they get the idea that maybe you couldn't tell time otherwise. Never got the hang of it in school. Like reading with your finger tracing the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Joy of Analog | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

The course itself includes hands-on instruction in both analog and digital electronics. Analog systems use electronic oscillators, filters, tapes, and other means to create and manipulate sounds. Digital electronics, in contrast, use computers to create, reproduce, and modify sounds. Harvard's array of digital equipment in Paine Hall includes...

Author: By Jonathan S. Steuer, | Title: Music Makers Compose Electronic Vibes | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

The analog room serves as a home for the infamous Serge Synthesizer. Created by Tcherepnin's brother, Serge, this complex unit--consisting of about a dozen small boxes interconnected by a web of wires--is the nerve center of a facility including mixers and tape decks. Though students with no...

Author: By Jonathan S. Steuer, | Title: Music Makers Compose Electronic Vibes | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

For a paltry $67,000 spread over 235 transactions, the shop in Birmingham's West End was able to rake in goods valued at some $2 million. On the list: 113 automobiles, four motorcycles, firearms, musical instruments, vacuum cleaners, window fans, chain saws, space heaters, clocks, credit cards, shoes, boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jail Sale: Where cupidity bred stupidity | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

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