Re: Soundblaster for low rent data acquisition?

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From: Gordon Couger
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:31

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In article <PHR.92Dec22195830@napa.telebit.com> phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes:
>I am interested in a cheap way to monitor some slowly changing
>voltages (read: DC) in a piece of test equipment.  8-bit resolution
>is fine.  I can scale the voltages to the 0-1 VDC range (or similar)
>using resistor networks if I need to.
>
>Does anyone know if a Soundblaster is a reasonable way to do this?
>Can I get continous DC DAC output from the soundblaster?

Sound Blaster works great you to 44 kHz single channel and 22 Khz 
dual channel. Their software is easy to use and the file format is
easy to figure out. I have some source code at work if any one is
interested.
Gordon
Gordon Couger
AB5Dg   Agriculture Engineering Oklahoma State University
gcouger@olesun.agen.okstate.edu 405-744-6514 day 744-2794 evenings

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