QBUS sound [Was: Re: [HECnet] Parallel computing using DECnet]

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
It's strange. I think I've seen a PRO someplace, but I can't recall
where. I do recall seeing a PDP-11 working in special circumstances.
(Would anyone curious please ask off list.)

Would a board built to be a MIDI controller suffice? One of the
composers who specializes in TV music basically constructed a whole
system for a TV show about thirty years ago. Eventually he switched to
a Mac.......
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
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On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2014-05-20 17:39, Jean-Yves Bernier wrote:

At 8:05 AM +0200 2/5/14, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:

I've yet to see a PDP-11 with builtin color graphics _and_ sound.



This one has both:
http://www2.pescadoo.net/pdp/syter/grm2082.jpg

The machine is a SMS 1000 OEM 11/73.

Here is the mixer screen:
http://www2.pescadoo.net/pdp/syter/INSTR2.GRA.png

and the edit screen:
http://www2.pescadoo.net/pdp/syter/INSTR5.GRA.png


512x512x8 frame buffer manufactured by Arinfo, France.

Serial BitPad.

Custom 4AD/8DA through DRV11.


Discontinued.


Of course... :-(

Anyway, I just realized/remembered that I'm not sure if the PRO was ever
mentioned in the context of PDP-11 with graphics and sound.
The PRO obviously always have grahpics. But there was also a sound option to
it, which could interface with telephone systems. Not sure exactly how
capable it was, but I have some blurb in a handbook somewhere.

              Johnny