Re: Soundblaster for low rent data acquisition?

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From: John Schuch
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 18:35

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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?

Couldn't you use a game(joystick) port? I haven't tried it but the
boards are cheap and I imagine they would make a reasonable 4 channel
analog input system, albeit low resolution.

John

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