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"Christopher had been introduced to me by Michael Suchoff. Michael was a brilliant engineer who helped program the first computerized electronic music synthesizers at ARP Instruments in the early seventies. ARP founder Alan R. Pearlman called me one day to suggest I work with Michael. Our collaboration included my electronic games for Parker Brothers and the ill-fated iXO Telecomputer. Chris designed the graphics for our prototype Microterminal.
He helped me design special models of our prototype, including a European model that we took to ITT headquarters in Brussels, where it successfully logged in to our computers back in Cambridge.
Christopher introduced me to membrane switches from Chomerics. They had been put into ARP synthesizers like the Chroma and Omni. Chris did graphic designs for the Omni and Axxe. At ARP he worked with Philip Dodds and Paul DeRocco, the project manager and engineer for the main ARP synthesizers. When ARP collapsed in 1981, Phil talked CBS into taking over the Chroma and hiring him as the project manager."
Friday, October 05, 2007
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