Otto Romanowski is one of the electronic music pioneers in Finland who have had great and remarkable career. He’s considered as electronic music pioneer among Erkki Kurenniemi and Henrik Otto Ronner. He is electronic music composer and professor in Sibelius Academy.
I contacted him few years ago and asked if he had any Apple II material left or if he could borrow some disks to be imaged and preserved. At the time all his Apple II material was in storage but he’d be accessing them later. It took quite a bit of time but now he contacted me as he was in process of moving and had found these:
Apple II europlus
Board date: 0283 | F8252, Board code: 606-X-648-X
Serial: IA2S2-693030 (Made in Ireland) 825-0187-00
-Power supply : Astec AA11040C (230 VAC 50Hz 0.5A)
-Disk II – floppy drive (2 pcs) : One drive had drilled hole on it so you could adjust the drive speed without removing the case. Looks like bullet hole.
Apple /// monitor : In quite good condition and clean. Few light scratches.
Apple paddle controllers : Pair of the old black 16-pin models, one adjusment ring missing.
Mountain Computer Sound System-cards with lightpen
Saturn 32k RAM-card
California Computer Systems CCS Apple II Asynchronous Serial Card 7710
-Disk II – interface card
-Epson printer – card
5.25″ diskettes : Some programming and music releated software.
These are now imaged to .woz (.a2r) and .dsk and available at : archive.org and asimov archives.
This particular Apple II europlus was originally used with in opening exibition of Finnish Science Center, “Heureka” in Vantaa back in 1989. It was used to let the visitors to create music and graphics with the Mountain Computer Sound system, paddles and lightpen.
An another Mountain Computer Sound System with Alpha Syntauri-setup can be seen on video used by Otto here: https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2009/11/10/otto-romanowski-esittelee-musiikkimikron
It seems to be early Apple //e model. This setup might have belonged to Espoon Musiikki Opisto (Espoo Music Institute) as Otto remembered the Alpha Syntauri was theirs. I contacted the Institute but sadly, the Alpha Syntauri was long gone. Otto was teacher at the Espoo Music Institute for Music Theory, Solfége and Electronic Music in 1979-1990.
Alpha Syntauri setup:
I will interview Otto later this year and release it here at FinApple.
An another piece of Finnish Apple II history saved up!
Alpha Syntauri:
http://www.appleii-box.de/H212_9_AppleIIalphaSyntauriPage9.htm
http://www.appleii-box.de/APPLE2/H212_AlphaSyntauri/AS%20TECH%20DOCS.pdf
Otto Romanowski:
https://romanowski.fi
https://soundcloud.com/oromanow
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Apple II Forever.