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Date:      Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:28:16 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
Cc:        Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>, <"."@babolo.ru>, David Nicholas Kayal <davek@saturn5.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Show me the light
Message-ID:  <xzpwuo24jfj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20021028094516.I34529-100000@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> (Chris Dillon's message of "Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:05:39 -0600 (CST)")
References:  <20021028094516.I34529-100000@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us>

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Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> writes:
> Heh.  Back when I had an 8086 XT and liked to listen to MODs and
> similar tracked music types, I built a very simple diode ladder DA
> converter that used the 8 output bits of the parallel port (9 output
> levels, so just slightly better than 3-bit resolution).

Umm, if you do it right you get 8-bit (or 9-bit) mono.  You're limited
to ~10 kHz though.  I have one of these babies lying around here
somewhere; they were sold (ready-made and as kits) under the brand
name Covox.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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