Last page update: July 24, 2021
SITE NEWS
| July 24, 2021 | Well, it seems I have been neglecting to update this page for quite a while. Sorry about that. Lots of things have happened since the last update. You can read about most of the changes on the main Electrongate DMX Files page. No more webcams on this site. Lots of DMX info over at the Facebook Oberheim DX/DMX Fan Club page. |
| May 25, 2010 | Electrongate is moving! I'm going back to California for a new job. I will probably shut down the webcam shortly until I figure out what to do about setting it up again at the new place. |
| March 24, 2010 | Added a new utility program, "Windows Uptime Logger" in the software library. |
| June 15, 2009 | Added a couple of new Oberheim accessories to the products page. Added a new time lapse movie. |
| May 31, 2009 | Added a copy of the OB-Xa factory programmed patch book here. |
| March 15, 2009 | I have a webcam connected again. This one is on the window sill near the computer, where the cats sometimes sit to look outside. You can click the cam photo (located below the time and temperature) to see some more interesting shots. |
| March 12, 2009 | I'm all moved into the new house and today I got the time and temperature displays up and running again. |
| December 16, 2008 | The offices of Electrongate are moving, so the temperature display and webcams will be offline until thigs are settled again. |
| November 24, 2007 | Added schematics and parts layout drawings for the Oberheim DSX on the obfiles page. |
| July 24, 2007 |
I found a copy of the original eBay ad I used to sell the BFG-8500 and
posted it here. A Windows program (dmxwav) has been posted on the software page that allows converting between binary DMX sound files and Windows WAV files. |
| June 14, 2007 | Cleaned up archive pages some more. New updates on the DMX Files, added some new Oberheim schematics. |
| December 18, 2005 | Updated archive pages for easier navigation. |
| November 10, 2005 | A MIDI upgrade for the Oberheim DMX is now available! Check out the details here. Available in kit form or fully installed. |
| June 1, 2005 | Added a new scan of the GZ-1000 User Manual |
| May 9, 2005 | Added a DMX MIDI addendum to the DMX manual on the DMX documents page. |
| February 21, 2005 | Posted some photos I took in 1977 on a new Led Zeppelin in Los Angeles page. |
| February 19, 2005 | With photos supplied by G-Man, down in Phoenix, I put up a page showing how to connect an Oberheim DX drum machine with a Stretch expansion unit. |
| September 11, 2004 | I finally finished scanning and OCRing the Oberheim DMX Owners Manual and posted it in the DMX documents page. |
| July 28, 2004 | Added several LM-1 and Linn 9000 samples to the Linn page, thanks to Rohan Mansell. |
| March 18, 2004 | Revamped Rhonda's home page, added several new links. |
| March 9, 2004 | Eric Gwinn wrote about this website in the Chicago Tribune today. (Registration required to read article). Thanks, Eric! |
| March 3, 2004 | Added direct link to time lapse movies on the main page. |
| September 5, 2003 | Added time and temperature display to the camera3 floating window on the webcam page. Lots of updates on the DMX Files, including new Linn drum samples, and instructions on making a three sample voice card. |
| December 15, 2002 | Added a new program (dwav) to the software page. |
| November 8, 2002 | Updated this page to get rid of the black background. Added some more items to the DMX Files FAQ. |
| October 8, 2002 | I made a new Electrongate logo for the main page and updated the mpeg time lapse movie page with thumbnails. |
| September 16, 2002 |
Updated Rhonda's crafts page with a new format. Added a thermometer reading to the main page. A sensor is located outside my office in East Flagstaff. The sensor is connected to a microprocessor controlled unit with an LED display and an RS-232 port. The RS-232 port connects to one of my computers which periodically samples the temperature. A cron job uploads this temperature to the web site hourly. |
| June 27, 2002 | Cleaned up the DMX EPROM download page, correcting some table errors and added "shot" EPROM sample. |
| June 9, 2002 | Revamped Rhonda's Home Page. Also, today is my 3 year anniversary for running SETI@Home. I've returned 3086 work units as of today. That's an average of a little over 1000 work units per year. The Route 66 WebCam is down while I figure out what's wrong with Sleepy, it's host computer. |
| February 13, 2002 | Added Oberheim Prommer schematics to the OB Files. |
| January 11, 2002 | Added a new Software Library page. So far the library contains lines.zip and wav2dmx.zip. |
| January 2, 2002 | Made some minor changes to the web statistics pages to list more search engines in the queries.html page. |
| October 28, 2001 | Added a randomization feature to the Paul Whites of the World Picture Page. You will get a different ordering of pictures each time the page is loaded. |
| September 6, 2001 | Started a DMX Files FAQ page. |
| June 11, 2001 |
I missed my second anniversary with Seti@Home, but as of today my stats are as follows: Packets processed: 2251 Standing: Unknown -- Seti@Home CGI is turned off. My rate has gone down a bit this year, due to the loss of my fastest computer (at Notify). However, I have just now put a Pentium II 300MHz PC on line running Seti@Home, so things may begin to pick up again pretty soon.
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| June 8, 2001 | My main Windows PC (Bigfoot) had a network card failure yesterday. So, no webcam photos from the front of the office until I fix that. |
| April 18, 2001 | Updated the webcam info page to show the map location of the new webcams. Updated my own entry on the Paul Whites of the World page. Added an mpeg time lapse movie on the webcam page. |
| March 31, 2001 | Added schematics for the Oberheim OB-1 synthesizer to this page. Added schematic for the Oberheim DMX MIDI expansion board here. |
| January 6, 2001 | It's been a long time since I updated this page -- sorry about that. A lot has happened. We've moved to Arizona (Flagstaff), and I'm finally getting my new office set up and back to where I can do updates. I still have many changes to make to the web site in order to reflect the changes in locale. For one thing, I'm no longer doing business as "White Product Development", the new name for my consulting business will be "Electrongate". Stay tuned as I update the website a little at a time... PJW |
| August 19, 2000 | Fixed some broken links on this page. |
| June 27, 2000 | Added archive box to main page for older stuff. |
| June 9, 2000 | Today is my one-year anniversary running SETI@Home. Total packets processed so far: 1184. That's an average of 3.24 packets per day. My current standing out of 2056599 users is 17099th place. |
| June 7. 2000 | Fixed some missing file problems on the DMX Files page. What's interesting is that several people, according to the web log, tried accessing these files and failed, but no one let me know that there was a problem. The only way I knew was from reading the logs. |
| May 30. 2000 | Updated SETI info on Paul's home page. |
| May 20, 2000 | Web access stats may now be viewed here. |
| May 16, 2000 | I cancelled my verio / aimnet account today. It will run until the end of the month, and then will be no more. |
| May 6, 2000 | Big news! I have moved the web site to our new web hosting service, Hurricane Electric, and registered a domain name of my own. Welcome to ElectronGate.com! I'll be changing things around over the next few days and weeks, so keep checking back to see what's new. |
| May 5, 2000 |
Over the past months, Verio (my ISP and web host)
has slowly been taking away much used privileges and features from me. I use a shell
account to acccess the website and handle e-mail while I'm at work.
They have been "migrating"
people with shell accounts to a new server, and no longer allow e-mail through shell.
This was the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. Since Verio acquired Aimnet
a couple of years ago, they have stopped providing web access stats, disabled finger
access, had problems with mirroring web sites on different machines, and other general
annoyances. Last week, I started the process of moving away from Verio to a new ISP.
I now have ISDN dialup access through PacBell. PacBell doesn't provide much in terms of
web hosting, so I am signing up with Hurricane Electric to host the web site. I am also
registering an internet domain name of my own, so in the future, I will be able to have
the same email and web addresses even if I move ISPs again in the future. Good bye, Verio! |
| April 23, 2000 | |
| February 25, 2000 | Added a link on this page to the SETI@Home project. You can see my personal SETI Stats here. |
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| January 6, 2000 | Updated the Paul Whites of the World page. |
| October 19, 1999 | Updated the Paul Whites of the World page. |
| May 28, 1999 | Added more sounds to The DMX Files. |
| May 19, 1999 | Added DMX technical home page as a source of information about the Oberheim DMX drum machine. |
| May 8, 1999 | Added DMX EPROM image archive. |
| January 28, 1999 | The web counter has logged the 1000th visitor to these pages! |
| January 1, 1999 | Updated the anagrams page, to mourn the passing of Sirajul & Mujibur's Anagram Game. |
| December 15, 1998 | Received a free plug from the Wahoo Gazette, a part of the Late Show with David Letterman web site. There were several mistakes in the plug, but, hey, at least they included a valid link to my anagrams page, and mentioned my name three or four times. |
| November 15, 1998 | Updated Links page, performed various random HTML tweaks. |
| October 13, 1998 | Anagrams! See mine here. |
| September 12, 1998 | Added Shareware Library page, and moved PWORLD link here. |
| September 7, 1998 | Updated virtual_garage_sale page with many new items. Don't miss the Freebies section! |
| July 29, 1998 | Updated Paul Whites of the World page and added new photo page. |
| June 9, 1998 | Working on a new logo and revamping home page design. Please excuse the mess! |
| June 8, 1998 | In keeping with the Best viewed with any browser campaign, removed NetscapeNow link on home page. |
| May 25, 1998 | Added NetscapeNow link on home page. |
| April 4, 1998 | Added schematic for Piano Discovery System stand-alone MIDI power supply cable. |
| February 25, 1998 | Added Paul Whites of the World page. |
| February 11, 1998 | Alta Vista finally added us to to their search engine database. |
| January 24, 1998 | Added photos to virtual_garage_sale, REMOVED links to inoperative Doom Ring. |
| January 14, 1998 | Updated virtual garage sale with some new items -- photos to follow soon. |
| December 23, 1997 | Added Doom Ring links on PWORLD page |
| October 27, 1997 | Web site listed on Excite search engine |
| September 1, 1997 | Web site listed on Lycos search engine |
| July 17, 1997 | Web site listed on Webcrawler search engine |
| July 16, 1997 | Web counter initialized |
| Daily, more or less. | Web access statistics |
