NeXTstation questions

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Tue May 22 14:18:18 2001

On May 22, Shawn T. Rutledge wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:58:43PM -0400, Jeff Hellige wrote:
> > > What is the purpose of the "DSP" port? (Two triangles beside it, one
> > > pointing up and one down, and the connector is 15-pin)
> >
> > I'm sure there must have been something that was made to plug into
> > that port, but I don't know what. It leads to a Digital Signal
> > Processor.
>
> Yeah I think there's a sound box with a speaker, and some audio connectors.

  ...which doesn't connect to the DSP port. It connects to the
video/kbd/audio connector on color NeXT machines. The NeXT soundbox
isn't used on mono machines because the speakers and audio connectors
(and sometimes the mic, depending on version) are built into the
monitor.

          -Dave McGuire
Received on Tue May 22 2001 - 14:18:18 BST