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- From: aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim)
- Subject: Re: FALCON
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.223110.141473@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
- Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne, F. R. Germany
- References: <y191PB2w164w@cellar.org> <27171@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Aug25.185043.13226@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 22:31:10 GMT
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- In <1992Aug25.185043.13226@u.washington.edu> mpark@milton.u.washington.edu (Michael Park) writes:
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- [stuff deleted]
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- >Strictly speaking, direct-to-disk recording doesn't even require D/A
- >conversion, so this whole discussion is kinda pointless :^)
- >Seriously, though, in addition to a big disk, you'll need a good
- >(==expensive?) sound digitizer (I don't recall reading that the
- >Falcon has 16-bit A/D on board...)
-
- There definitely is a microphone jack at the back of the Falcon.
- It's in the Falcon sheet that was available at the Atari Messe
- and I saw it myself too. An Atari representative explained to me
- that all you need to digitize sound was a microphone to plug into
- that jack and some software. Unfortunately, I didn't ask about
- technical details, but from what I heard I conclude there must be
- an A/D converter of some sort already built in.
-
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