[kingcharles]

Ha, not many stories. He's a nice guy. I worked for him like 1999-2004? Through the 'Up' album, which I think is really underrated. Mostly Real World stuff though, as that has been his primary focus. Some cool parties at his studio, which is beautiful. I remember one when Martha from Martha and the Muffins had just finished producing an album and was moving on.. there was a party and bands.. and then PG got up on stage and took over the keyboard and started playing the beginning of "Echo Beach" and Martha was laughing in the crowd and saying "Nooo!", but you can't say No to PG, so she had to get up on stage and her and PG gave us an impromptu performance of "Echo Beach" which was awesome.

p.s. that video was awesome. Were those 8" floppies it used?

[eashman]

Yeah I was starting to use PCs during the Apple II era so we didn’t have 8 inch disks anymore by then in my house. But I do remember seeing them in labs with VAX systems.

But those specialized music workstations all were custom designed so the parts etc. used were based on older standards I’m sure. Pre-ISA bus too I would guess.

Nowadays, even a lot of embedded devices like IOT things are running effectively a Linux OS on them so the economies of scale are enormous compared to the early 80s music gear.

I imagine Roland and other similar companies had their own OS or base platform they used on those earlier workstations that eventually had screens you could attach.