@General Lighting 596856 wrote:
TBH should have just got one of those 68000 based machines instead of going to University; would have learned a damn sight more but my parents especially Dad were insistent that getting a degree was the only way forward; the profs in my uni said in 1992 “no one will ever be able to afford these multimedia computers to make “pop music”; that is far too frivolous a use for them (which is a worryingly outdated viewpoint as “pop musicians” had been doing that already for 10 years ffs…)
unfortunately there is a 10 year gap in my knowledge roughly matching the heyday of the 1990s rave scene; that might not make sense given I used computers throughout all that time and had a few tech related jobs but the education system and IT industry of the 90s easily destroyed a young persons passion and interest through bad management and excessive stress.
I still had great fun adapting tech for underground purposes my knowledge gap is a bit of an annoyance today (thankfully so many systems of that era are obsolete so I can bluff my way round it, but I now have to spend my spare time reading downloaded papers from undergraduate uni courses to remind me of what I was supposed to have learned back then.
that said, there are young staff who work for me who actually have supposedly IT-related degrees but for some reason they do not teach those youngsters coding or problem solving skills; more importantly there really seems to be (in England at least) a lack of younger people with the passionate interest in technology of previous generations; which is not something you can just learn in school or college; although these places giving access to the technology does help. Requiem is to be fair one of the smarter lads of his generation (that is probably why I thought he was a Scot at first)
I studied music tech at college, I have to say the systems. were consistently breaking down i learnt things but my knowledge would have to be refreshed/updated now if I wanted to work in a studio. I went and did other things at uni..but return to music tech at home..the idea at one point ..to set up home studio/
