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== History ==
In the early 70's Serge Tcherepnin began to design and build synthesizers while teaching at California Institute of the Arts. Before long, other professors, students, and musicians became interested in these new synthesizers. Serge set up an odd manufacturing arrangement where interested people paid $700 up front for parts, then worked for him building modules. When done, they were rewarded with a six-panel system of their own.<ref name="kscs">[https://web.archive.org/web/20160806034511f/http://www.cgs.synth.net/synth/serge/index.html Classic Serge] (archived) by Ken Stone, 1999, with permission of the author</ref>
In 1992 Serge production and intellectual property were taken over by [[Sound Transform Systems]] (STS) of Oakland, California, founded by [[Rex Probe]] in 1984.<ref name="vail">''Vintage Synthesizers: Groundbreaking Instruments and Pioneering Designers of Electronic Music Synthesizers'' by Mark Vail, Backbeat Books, 2000, ISBN 0879306033</ref>
=== Paperface ===
A few different methods of panel marking were tried, and the one settled on for some of the early units was to print (photocopy?) the panel markings onto a piece of paper, one per module. These were then stuck on the 17" x 7" aluminium panels that were pre-drilled with a grid of 1" spaced holes, irrespective of whether all holes would be needed. The top edge of these pieces of paper folded over on to the back of the panel, and contained brief markings to help wiring the jacks of the module in question to its circuit board. All of the pieces of paper were then covered over with a single piece of adhesive [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoPET mylar film] or "Contact" type book covering film.<ref name="kscs"/><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140318163136/http://www.coa-modular.com/2012/06/03/what-and-why-paperface/ What and Why Paperface?], coa-modular, 3 Jun 2012</ref><ref name="kscs"/>
== Intention ==
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