Continuing the restoration of a vintage 1970's 32-channel analog recording console. Interestingly, one of the earliest to be equipped with a logic bus overlaid

Continuing the restoration of a vintage 1970's 32-channel analog recording console. Interestingly, one of the earliest to be equipped with a logic bus overlaid on analog controls capable of being operated and automated remotely by computer. Just in case anybody got any wild ideas about building an interface circuit to connect something like an Apple II and writing a little code to go along with it. I guess nobody ever got around to it, who knows, maybe something like that could be considered a little overdue. Kind of reminds me of an early "digital" electron microscope of the same vintage when it was new, the previous all-analog model was continued as the underlying platform, with all the knobs and dials as ever, and a complete digital layer was overlaid by the (very advanced) factory engineers so you could get the computer advantage in data handling and control. Any breakdown or uncertainty in the digital system could be over-ridden by the analog controls as the ultimate backup. You really have to stay on your toes, if you fall behind from here there's no telling where you'll end up. It's not easy keeping up with the trailing edge of technology . . .