Tom Scholtz the MIT graduate who gave the world the Boston guitar sound , engineered and developed what could arguably be called the 1st modeler. Released in the early 80's the Rockman was a small electronics package designed to be able to allow the player to have some portability and privacy.
The Rockman gave that distinctive Boston sound and was no one trick pony .. the chorus was very cool and the distortion and od features were amazing , how good were they , well i can remember in the early 80's tons of gigging players using them di to the board to get some amazing results, they were everywhere ..Def Leppard used them in the studio and legend has it that Billy Gibbons used one on the zztop single rough boys .The little sandwich sized plastic box was for the time simply amazing . Anyone who has ever played one will undoubtedly remember the beautiful sustain and eq .
Tom Scholtz developed many other electronics inovations including the Power Soak , an attunator, which enabled high powered amps to be played at high gain levels without high volume levels .. Scholtz eventually sold the company to Dunlop sometime in the 90's . Rockman's are available on ebay on a regular basis for 100 bucks or so , a very cool blast from the past ...6S9L