Re: Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-23 Thread allison
Bus Music Board > From: Jim Stephens > That A6006 produces a hit in this document > ... > AAV11-C ANALOG OUTPUT BOARD > ... > 4 DACs, and a DC-DC converter. Sounds like it might be a standard analog output board, for lab settings. I'll bet

Re: Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-23 Thread ben
On 2/23/2017 4:36 AM, Tony Duell wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 01:49:10PM -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote: Sounds like it might be a standard analog output board, for lab settings. I'll bet the music thing is some marketing ploy, like the car

RE: Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-23 Thread Bill Gunshannon
From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Pontus Pihlgren [pon...@update.uu.se] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 11:26 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Q Bus Music Board On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 01:25

Re: Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-23 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 01:25:24PM +, Bill Gunshannon wrote: > I think IO have a couple of them but I never heard them play music. :-) A couple of A6006 or a couple of Q Bus Music Boards? (I'm guessing A6006, I think that even I have D/A boards lying around) /P

RE: Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-23 Thread Bill Gunshannon
From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Noel Chiappa [j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 1:49 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Cc: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: Q Bus Music Board > From: Jim Steph

Re: Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-23 Thread Tony Duell
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 01:49:10PM -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote: >> >> Sounds like it might be a standard analog output board, for lab settings. >> I'll bet the music thing is some marketing ploy, like the card game in 'The >> Story of Mel'. (

Re: Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-23 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 01:49:10PM -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > Sounds like it might be a standard analog output board, for lab settings. > I'll bet the music thing is some marketing ploy, like the card game in 'The > Story of Mel'. (What, you haven't read 'The Story of Mel'?!? :-) > But of co

Re: Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-22 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Jim Stephens > That A6006 produces a hit in this document > ... > AAV11-C ANALOG OUTPUT BOARD > ... > 4 DACs, and a DC-DC converter. Sounds like it might be a standard analog output board, for lab settings. I'll bet the music thing is some marketing ploy, like the

Re: Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-22 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 11:02:08PM -0800, jim stephens wrote: > > That A6006 produces a hit in this document > > http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/qbus/EB-23144-18_QbusIntrfs_1983.pdf > > AAV11-C ANALOG OUTPUT BOARD > > Table 1, document page 18, PDF page 28 for the index entry > AAV11-

Re: Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-21 Thread jim stephens
On 2/21/2017 11:17 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: It certainly looks like a DEC document numbering scheme. In the ebay auction it was decsribed a an "A6006 Analog output board". I think that is something entirely different, or is it related? Thank you for shedding some light on it. /P That A6006

Re: Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-21 Thread Adrian Stoness
decworld was decus related? i know my father went to one of these conferences back in the day and won the rainbow100 door prize that they shipped to him all the way to the remote bush of northern manitoba. On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 12:28:5

Re: Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-21 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 12:28:55PM -0500, allison wrote: > > The board was called Gigilo. Ah, another keyword to look for. > I have one and last I tried it it was operational I also have a minor chunk > of code to do > some music under RT11. Currently deeply buried and not in my easy search > p

Re: Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-21 Thread allison
On 2/21/17 9:17 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: Hi This has been discussed on this mailinglist before (back in -95 and -03). But with very little information came out of that. I'm curious about the "Q Bus Music Board" that DEC made. What system was it used in, what software was avai

Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-21 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
Hi This has been discussed on this mailinglist before (back in -95 and -03). But with very little information came out of that. I'm curious about the "Q Bus Music Board" that DEC made. What system was it used in, what software was available that took advantage of it, how would