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Re: Sun Speakerbox pinout

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From: Borja Marcos
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 00:00
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Craig Dewick wrote:
> 
> In <34C62D5A.3144@aur.alcatel.com> Toby Creek <creek@aur.alcatel.com> writes:
> 
> >I don't know that you will be able to get it working with an IPX.
> >You have three options:
> 
> >1. Buy a Sun BRI ISDN card.  They are discontinued and cheap.  They take
> >one SBUS slot and give you 16 bit audio.  The connector for the
> >speakerbox is on there.
> 
> A standard IPX might not have enough CPU grunt for the ISDN card. Maybe
> someone who's used the Sun-ISDN software with one in a Sparc IPX can comment
> on this?

	CPU grunt? Humm. It would depend on the kind of CPU interface...

> 
> >2.  Gut the speakerbox.  Hook up a power supply, bypass the buttons on
> >top, and try to mate the signal level from the IPX headphone out to the
> >inputs on the speakerbox.   NOT RECOMMENDED.
> 
> 8-)

	Yes, I think I will do something like that.


> That aside, I also have a Sparc LX and apart from the slow CPU, it's very
> good.

	These machines aren't slow. It's only that the latest Ultras are
terribly fast! But I've got an IPX I can have my work done with this
machine without problems.

	Borja.
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Subject: Re: Sun Speakerbox pinout
Date: 1998/01/23
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