![]() But how could we support that kind of cost on a product with five knobs of solid aluminum, brushed metal inserts, and, as a lagniappe, a white dot for orientation? So you don’t have to peek ahead, the answer was Citizens Band Radio. As the HM80 was being designed, CB was dying. ![]() Edlie, my favorite Long Island surplus emporium, was the beneficiary of the demise of Hy-Gain, an old-line radio and antenna manufacturer that overestimated the staying power of the Breaker-19 syndrome. Hallelujah, an affordable front panel! What About Innards? $5 knobs, brand new and in their original compartmented boxes, were suddenly five cents. One of the biggest expenses in a number of our products was the audio digital-storage memory price. From the very first shift-register delay line to almost the present day, memory chip prices defined the economical and sometimes even the possible. ![]() Memory prices at the time were prohibitive. (Even earlier, they were as much as a dollar per byte!) At least they were hard to manufacture and often hard to get. Enter memory manufacturer Mostek, who was selling half-memories at much less than half-price. To find your data in a memory chip, you must give it the “address” which defines its location with the digital state of a number of address lines. #Eventide h910 harmonizer schematic full.
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