(Written September 28th, 2008 Declassified January 23, 2009)

It was my second visit to do some recording and again it was fantastic, recorded loads of sounds and loads of video footage. I also got to access to “The Archive” which is amazing a huge room of software, magazines and books from manuals for the Elliot 803 to Z80 assembly language and more, I imagine I will spend quite alot of time there.

A new machine arrived the Elliot 905, which looks amazing, the control console looks like something out of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, and immediately I notice it too like the Elliot 803, is capable of producing sounds, so I can’t wait to see that up and running.

Had a go on a few punch card machines which make a strange collection of clicks and whizzing sounds which was good fun, and had a look at DECtalk, which is a speech synthesis computer module which sounds remarkably like the voice of Professor Stephen Hawkins, so thats gonna be fun to manipulate.

The picture to the right is of the BOMBE.

I am also going have access to a few electro calculators, which depending on what and what type of calculation can produce different types of clunky sounds and rhythms, which is gonna be good fun to play with.

So lots of stuff done and a lot lot more to research.