• The move to the new server is done. There are some software and database maintenance updates in process. This has us passing the hat around to help out. We appreciate any donations. Seriously, even a dollar helps. The payment page may be found here - https://www.audiokarma.org/support.html

The Steampunk thread

the KORD is actually an offset isn't it? Never seen one of those before, but ya still gotta love listening to all the suction, and watching all the parts moving.. like a mechanical ballet.. :thmbsp:
 
similost said:
the KORD is actually an offset isn't it? Never seen one of those before, but ya still gotta love listening to all the suction, and watching all the parts moving.. like a mechanical ballet.. :thmbsp:
Click to expand...

Yes it is an offset. If we had room we would have a Windmill in a heartbeat, they are great for diecutting, embossing, and letterpressing. Our 4 color Speedmaster kind of eats up way to much space.

Ask me to run any press and I would have no clue.
 
spartanmanor said:
Yes it is an offset. If we had room we would have a Windmill in a heartbeat, they are great for diecutting, embossing, and letterpressing. Our 4 color Speedmaster kind of eats up way to much space.

Ask me to run any press and I would have no clue.
Click to expand...

I wished I could remember the brand of the offsets I used to run. I had completely rebuilt one of them, and got it dialed in pretty damn good.. I was impressed as hell what it took to make one work. Until you get into one, you just can't understand it enough to make it work right I've found. I was having a hell of a time trying to learn to run an offest, but then after I rebuilt the one, I understood how everything was so interconnected, and finally got the hang of it, and was actually producing some really nice print..
 
I do print design, and I love to go hang out in the press room while a job is running. One of our service providers has a row of three Heidelberg offsets... just beautiful, massive machines.
spartanmanor said:
Mechanical technology. IE: no computers
Click to expand...
Instead we have the "Computational Engine". :D
 
spartanmanor said:
Mechanical technology. IE: no computers
Click to expand...

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzt!

Incorrect, see Babbage!

Difference Engine

(Why you are at it, read Gibson & Sterling's steampunk collaboration from '91, "The Difference Engine".)

As an aside, the battleships of WW2 used purely mechanical computers to develop the firing solutions for the 16" guns.

orig.jpg


On a much smaller scale you have the Curta, not steampunk per se but purely mechanical calculators nevertheless -

Curta02.jpg
 
I've wanted a CURTA ever since I saw my first one. The dang things are so expensive now, I'll probably not ever buy one. (I don't need one, they're just cool as hell... :D )
 
ozmoid said:
I've wanted a CURTA ever since I saw my first one. The dang things are so expensive now, I'll probably not ever buy one. (I don't need one, they're just cool as hell... :D )
Click to expand...

One day I will find one at a yardsale for $5.

Considering where I live, the odds are in my favor.

Massachusetts was once the home of nearly everything high tech or military.
 
Lest we forget, 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea

and Jules Verne, the original Steam Punk!

Nemo, what a bad ass -

image018.jpg
 
soundmotor said:
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzt!

Incorrect, see Babbage!
Click to expand...


I guess I should have clarified my statement meaning modern computers of silicon and circuit boards manipulating electronic binary data. Computational tabulation machines date back to the Roman Empire the greatest example being the Antikythera mechanism from around 100 B.C.

sar_4a.jpg
 
spartanmanor said:
I guess I should have clarified my statement meaning modern computers of silicon and circuit boards manipulating electronic binary data. Tabulation machines date back to the Roman Empire the greatest example being the Antikythera mechanism dating from around 100 B.C.

sar_4a.jpg
Click to expand...

Absolutely, that was a great catch.
 
I've been reading this thread with great interest. It inspired me to create a "STEAMPUNK Soundtrack" compilation for my personal listening pleasure. :music:

It incorporates lots of instrumental songs from the 1960's and 1970's with some newer stuff thrown in. I've got tunes from FOCUS, Ennio Morricone movie soundtrack bits, ELP, KANSAS and JETHRO TULL. Lots of MOOG and electric organ stuff (SUGARLOAF's "Bach Door Man", Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein", plus a 3 DOG NIGHT live organ solo by Jimmy Greenspoon) and it ends with the 1980 version of the "Theme from Dr Who". :banana:

Too bad I can't share it with you all - it's a real trip!
 
I think I finally have something to add to this thread that is my own creation....

Pictures later of the work in progress.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom