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  1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 01:45:14 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾 Anatoly Shashkin💾

    Hmmm... 🤔

    In conversation Friday, 19-Jan-2024 01:45:14 UTC from mastodon.social permalink

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    • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 01:46:51 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾 Anatoly Shashkin💾
      in reply to

      The sound of data. 🔊💾💾💾💾

      In conversation Friday, 19-Jan-2024 01:46:51 UTC permalink

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    • Brad (bk1e@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 02:26:35 UTC Brad Brad
      in reply to

      @dosnostalgic What happened next:

      In conversation Friday, 19-Jan-2024 02:26:35 UTC permalink

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    • Gerard Braad ✅ (gbraad@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 07:30:39 UTC Gerard Braad ✅ Gerard Braad ✅
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      @dosnostalgic now the challenge is to use the covox output and receive that using a mic on the other end, pushing into another laplink (without the machines directly coupled): acoustic-isolated file transfer ... or in other words: acuostic-coupling

      In conversation Friday, 19-Jan-2024 07:30:39 UTC permalink

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    • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 09:38:16 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾 Anatoly Shashkin💾
      in reply to
      • Brad
      • Andrew Cook :hokkaido:

      @bk1e @piepants You assume correctly

      In conversation Friday, 19-Jan-2024 09:38:16 UTC permalink
    • Brad (bk1e@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 09:38:17 UTC Brad Brad
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      • Andrew Cook :hokkaido:

      @piepants @dosnostalgic At least I assume that's what C:\GAMES\ANOTHER\FRENCH is

      In conversation Friday, 19-Jan-2024 09:38:17 UTC permalink
    • Andrew Cook :hokkaido: (piepants@famichiki.jp)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 09:38:18 UTC Andrew Cook :hokkaido: Andrew Cook :hokkaido:
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      • Brad

      @bk1e @dosnostalgic holy crap, I remember this game, but could never remember what it was called! Thank you!

      In conversation Friday, 19-Jan-2024 09:38:18 UTC permalink
    • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 12:27:20 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾 Anatoly Shashkin💾
      in reply to
      • Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

      @collectifission Yep. It was easy to make, and was popular in places where one couldn't afford a real sound card, like Eastern Europe
      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing

      In conversation Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 12:27:20 UTC permalink

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        Covox Speech Thing
        The Covox Speech Thing is an external digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that plugs into the parallel printer port of a PC. It converts 8-bit digital sound using a simple R-2R resistor ladder into an analog signal output. The Speech Thing was introduced on December 18, 1987 by Covox, Inc. of Eugene, Oregon, for about US$70 (equivalent to $180 in 2022) and priced US$79.95 as of 1989. People soon started to build their own (DIY) variants, since its communication protocol and DAC is simple and only requires soldering a few cheap parts. The novelty of its patent "Parallel port pass-through digital to analog converter" (filed in 1987, granted in 1989) wasn't specifically the use of a resistor ladder as a DAC, but rather the patent's discussion is around its ease of plugging into the parallel port and how its resistor ladder design didn't block other devices from using the parallel port. The plug was used long into the 1990s, as sound cards were still very expensive at that time. The plug was also quite popular in the demoscene. An inherent problem of the design is that its quality relies on how precisely matched the resistors are (see...
    • Emil Jacobs - Collectifission (collectifission@greennuclear.online)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 12:27:26 UTC Emil Jacobs - Collectifission Emil Jacobs - Collectifission
      in reply to

      @dosnostalgic what a strange accessory. Was it ever used for actual sound production of some kind? I’ve never seen it before.

      In conversation Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 12:27:26 UTC permalink

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