I've been tinkering with electronic music since my teens - at first a Roland TR505 drum machine and a Casio CZ-101 keyboard. And then in about 1987 I managed to swap my keyboard for a Roland TR808. I can vividly remember heading to Watford Junction station to pick up the package from the Red Star … Continue reading #SAE January – TR808 Buttons
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So where better to begin this project than an image that pretty much encapsulates the beginnings of what I occasionally refer to as my "career". I learned to use a computer back in the 1980s using a BBC Micro. Sitting just above the keyboard, under a slip of perspex with holes drilled out for the … Continue reading #SAE December – the BBC Micro Owl
I've always had a bit of a thing for button badges. I blame my mother. She worked for the kids' TV show Blue Peter for many years of her working life, and the programme is (in)famous for the badges that were given to some viewers. In my teens I had the first experience of making … Continue reading #SAE
