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

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri May 2 07:09:57 PDT 2014


On 05/02/2014 02:05 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
  There are very few PDP-11s that won't kick the living snot out of a
Commodore 64, FYI.

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

  Me neither.

The 64 probably outsold all models of 11 taken together.

  That's certainly possible, but one cannot argue that their target
markets were even remotely related.   Or even aware of each other's
existence, for tha tmatter.

so it depends on your application and measurement I 
suppose.

  We were talking about distributed math apps.

I'm told there were, probably third party, sound cards 
for qbus. Has anyone of you seen one or know more?

  I haven't.   I have a really neat Qbus card with a TMS9918 sprite-based
video chip on it, though!

                        -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA



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