Hello, As it happens, I have 8 of these microphones in front of me for an experiment, but all batteries are missing... Does any one knows which type of batteries they use? and possibly how long they will last? I can't find any reference in SUN docs. Thanks for any indication, ? ? regards, ? ? Paul
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:20 PM, a b <tripivceta at hotmail.com> wrote: >> At one company we had about 20 of those microphones and some of you >> might even remember the speakers. They were never used... >> >> Here's a pic of the microphone >> http://www.security-lab.de/pics/sun-mic-1.JPG. > > Ah yes, I had one of those; never used it as well. > The funny thing about Sun workstations is, the Crystal Semiconductor chip > inside of them was very high end for his time -- it supported full duplex > (recording and playback) at the same time in 16-bit PCM mono at 44.1KHz when > most PCs were only beeping through the PC speaker, and Amiga had 22Khz 8-bit > sound from the Paula chip. > Later versions of Sun workstations had even better audio hardware; and what > makes the whole story really bizarre is that a Sun machine could have been > easily used for high-end multimedia and audio processing, yet nobody I ever > knew used them for that, nor did I see any tools ala FruityLoops or Rebirth > on a Solaris system and Sun hardware. > It's really bizarre that such high-end audio remained so obscure. > ________________________________ > check out the rest of the Windows Live?. More than mail?Windows Live? goes > way beyond your inbox. More than messages > _______________________________________________ > ug-chosug mailing list > ug-chosug at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-chosug > >
