Lindos.co.uk
Title
Lindos Electronics - Audio Test & Measurement
Description
About Lindos Electronics
The Lindos story began in 1979 with the design of the LA1 Audio Test Set, and founding of the business, by Pete Skirrow. Initially conceived as a unit for aligning tape machines this turned out to be the ideal unit for testing the newly launched local radio stations throughout the UK to the necessary codes of practice prior to their being licensed for operation by the ITC. Links were formed with the IBA quality control section at Crawley Court (now disbanded) and many BBC and BT departments, which were to influence future work.
Big profits on the LA1 funded work on a new Microprocessor-controlled Audio Analyser, the LA100, which came to fruition in 1984, incorporating the novel and flexible sequence testing system that was to become widely used by broadcasters. Ahead of its time, it was one of the first battery operated products to use a microprocessor (we waited 18 months for deliveries of the only microprocessor to become available in CMOS - the 6502). It was also one of the first instruments ever to use a graphic LCD, which enabled it to show graphs of frequency response. Graphic LCDs are everywhere now, but in 1983, as I designed the unit, they were a brand new concept, and I only hit on the possibility of displaying graphs as I stood looking at primitive handheld games toys (which I discovered used custom made LCDs with limited possibilities) in a shop window! With Nickel Cadmium rechargeable battery, and RS232 computer interface it was a unit without any competition, and it is still selling in virtually unchanged form.
Once again sales took off, and this time it was television companies that brought in much of the money, though the unit was soon to become something of a standard thoughout broadcasting organisations and studios worldwide.
