{"id":867,"date":"2012-05-21T14:03:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T19:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=867"},"modified":"2012-05-29T13:11:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T18:11:53","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-apple-ii-music-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/867\/retro-scan-of-the-week-apple-ii-music-system","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Apple II Mountain Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/mountain_computer_musicsystem_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/mountain_computer_musicsystem_small.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain Computer MusicSystem Music System Apple II Ad - Mountain Music - 1982\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>The Mountain Computer MusicSystem.  Not a scene from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hee_Haw\" target=\"_blank\">Hee Haw<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In an age when the vast majority of commercial music is recorded or produced using computers, it&#8217;s interesting to look back to a time with computer-based music tools were in their infancy.  In this case we&#8217;re turning back the clock 30 years to examine an ad for the Mountain Computer MusicSystem, a musical synthesizer and sequencer add-on for the Apple II (horse not included).<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, I know nothing about this system beyond what you read in the ad above (and some Googled info found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.applefritter.com\/node\/138\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/eightbitsoundandfury.ld8.org\/hardware.html#mountain\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).  But I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if the original creators of the MusicSystem are lurking somewhere out there on the Internet &#8212; just waiting for this subject to come up so they can post a comment about it on a blog like this one.  If that&#8217;s the case, please do!<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Popular Computing, January 1982, p.1 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> When was the first time you used a computer as a tool in music production?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mountain Computer MusicSystem. Not a scene from Hee Haw. In an age when the vast majority of commercial music is recorded or produced using computers, it&#8217;s interesting to look back to a time with computer-based music tools were in their infancy. In this case we&#8217;re turning back the clock 30 years to examine an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[65,61,62,63,64,60],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-65","tag-apple-ii","tag-computer-music","tag-mountain-computer","tag-musicsystem","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}