Almost Like Christmas...
From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.
I’ve got a lot more room here in the new joint than I did in our apartment in PDX, so I was able to drag some old boxes from storage back in to the light of day. Since they’re all just marked “Studio (Fragile)” and obviously it’s shit I didn’t actually need at any point, I have no idea whatsoever what’s in them, and opening them is like a combination of a somewhat dusty Christmas and a trip down an equally dusty memory lane.
The contents of one box are shown above. There are two rolls of exposed but undeveloped film, four mysteriously labeled DAT tapes, five cassette tapes, two of which are labeled with old SMG board roughs, four 5.25” floppies, three of which have Syntauri-related software on them, an original Gameboy, two Lomo cameras, boxed copies of the first AD product (Mayhem), iSynth, Pluggo, and Mode, a Windows XP full install, a copy of Cubasis AV, a battered SM58, and a Swiss Army watch.
And I have the temerity to call Adam a pack-rat. God only knows what’s in these other boxes. Time to find out.
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Obviously, I'm late to the game, but how long ago did Mayhem come out? I suppose I assumed you had always been an online shop only.
Woo. Those Syntauri floppies beat the Turbosynth floppy I ran across in my closet the other day.
--Adam
Mayhem came out in 2004. We sold boxed copies for a little while, until we figured out that was stupid. So some of our earliest customers have boxed copies of Mayhem, but that's the only time we did that. (OS9, even.)
-CR
There something I find really amusing about that windows XP box being there, amongst all the obsolete technology. Reminds me how odd it is that the most popular OS out there is almost 10 years old.
Good stuff. That Swiss Army was my first grown-up watch. And I believe that's a Beta 58. I've lived in apartments so long that I've been rigorous about chucking stuff, there's no room for deep storage. :(
Yeah, it's a Beta. (The blue ring around the windscreen is the giveaway.)
-CR
I think I still have old Windows 3.1 install floppys around the house somewhere... your recovered goods are at least still useful (well, most of them).
the LCA is a good find.
let me know if you have no use for it :)
That's one of the original ones, too. I got it right when they first opened the lomography.com shop. It's not a LC-A+ but rather an old-school LC-A.
I've also got the Russian instruction booklet, for a fat lot of good that would do me. In any case, it has a bit of a problem (common to the original LC-A) where the shutter release has stuck. I have to open it up and get the jam out with a toothpick. Not a big deal, but it's time consuming. I'm definitely gonna go do a desert walk-about once I get it working, though.
-CR
Turbosynth...now there's a fond memory
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