HW: Blake's Crystal Machine?

[Max Wilcox]

Hi All...

        Right... I'll come straight to the point, rather than rambling on and
on, and not to actually come to the actual purpose of this post  until
several paragraphs down... er yes...
        What is a crystal machine? Everyone goes on about "Tim Blake's famed
crystal machine" in the 79/80 period - what the heck is it? I think it's
some kind of percussion instrument, but know not the details. It can't
be a bike, also, because it's not silver...
        Oh, and on another topic, I'd recommend to all of the people out there
with far too much time on their hands (that, or they are masters at
procrastination) to download a copy of "CATraxx" which is an album
cataloguing program. It's great, you can put track lists, lineups,
authors of each song, even a pic of the cover of the albums on it. A
groovy feature is that it has a CD player with the program and you can
play CDs and it'll put the track name, author etc. on the screen while
you listen. (Gee, you'd think I work for the people who made this
program...). I've been typing in all my HW albums this evening - highly
exciting (that's what Easter does to you...).

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