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Re: Mac -> stereo

#24687
From: Adam Alexander Margulies
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1988 06:02
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In article <1006@thorin.cs.unc.edu> glassner@unc.cs.unc.edu (Andrew S. Glassner) writes:
>I'd like to hear my Mac on my stereo, but the fellow at the computer
>shop said I should not simply use a cable with the appropriate plugs
>at the two ends (mono 1/8" to 1/4"), though he couldn't justify this
>claim.  He did make doom and thunder sounds should I be foolish enough 
>to ignore his words (okay, too many spooky games!).
>
>Can I connect my Mac Plus to my stereo?  How?
>
>Thanks!
>-Andrew
>
>   - -- ---- ------- ------------ -------------------- ---------------------
>Andrew Glassner    UUCP:decvax!mcnc!unc!glassner    ARPA:glassner@cs.unc.edu

	I would simply buy two cables of the appropriate sizes, cut them
and then splice them. I can't imagine an impedance problem, especially
if the stereo is a decent one. Of course, should you blow your computer
up, you didn't hear it here.


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From: vespa@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Adam Alexander Margulies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac -> stereo
Message-ID: <1821@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 3 Feb 88 06:02:30 GMT
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