symphony for dot matrix printers

From: Glen Goodwin <acme_ent_at_bellsouth.net>
Date: Mon Sep 3 21:30:36 2001

> From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>

> You might well be mad as well, I can't comment (although I do believe
> that many people on classiccmp are at least mildly eccentric :-))

I agree. The diversity of the posters to this list is its best quality,
IMHO ;>)

> I can't really recomend damaging old hardware...

I have qualms about this as well.

> Really mad idea.... Take a classic computer, add a 31.25kbpx current loop
> serial interface, link it up to all sorts of old hardware (printers, disk
> drives, tape drives, etc), and have a device that takes Midi commands and
> gets that old hardware to make interesting sounds...

Brilliant idea, Tony. I have a classic ISA MIDI board, drivers and
software. Together they can control 64 MIDI channels. I wonder if I could
control some devices directly with MIDI data?

Thanks again for the great suggestions and help.

Glen
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