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Date:      Sun, 2 May 1999 22:19:23 +0100 
From:      paul@originative.co.uk
To:        tanimura@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp, nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de
Cc:        zinnia@jan.ne.jp, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Call for Review: Voxware midi driver for serial ports
Message-ID:  <A6D02246E1ABD2119F5200C0F0303D10FF21@octopus>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seigo TANIMURA [mailto:tanimura@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp]
> Sent: 02 May 1999 06:58
> To: nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de
> Cc: tanimura@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp; zinnia@jan.ne.jp;
> freebsd-current@freebsd.org; freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Call for Review: Voxware midi driver for serial ports
> 
> 
> From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
> Subject: Re: Call for Review: Voxware midi driver for serial ports
> Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 02:15:00 +0200
> Message-ID: <19990502021500.A3181@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
> 
> nox> On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 10:27:35AM +0900, Seigo TANIMURA wrote:
> nox> > On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:15:05 +0200,
> nox> >   Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> said:
> nox> > 
> nox> > >> Another bad news, I tried driving my SC-88 
> connected directly to a PC using
> nox> > >> Windows 95 and Portman PC/S driver, to find a 
> miserable result. I saw no midi
> nox> > >> messages come properly, so Portman PC/S should be 
> cooking the signals in some way...
> nox> > 
> nox> > nox> Or uses a higher speed than 38k4, can you check 
> that?  Hmm, or maybe
> nox> > nox> i should just take my old Atari MSTe and use that 
> as serial<->midi
> nox> > nox> interface...
> nox> > 
> nox> > 
> nox> > Bitrate > 38.4k... I wish I had a looooong serial 
> cable. The PC I had a test
> nox> > on the Portman driver is not in my room, and it is not 
> a portable one.
> nox> > 
> nox> > Atari, I have only heard the name. I played with an 
> Acorn when I was a kiwi.
> nox> 
> nox> Acorn, what CPU did it have again? :)
> 
> Sorry, it was not mine, so I have no idea. I remember that 
> Acone had a FM synthesizer
> in it, no midi interfaces. It sounded like a flat 
> harpsichord, which was good at that
> time(in 1993, six years ago).

The Acorn used a 6502. They went on to produce a box in the UK called the
BBC Computer. It was *way* ahead of it's time, I still have it in the
garage. Graphics resolutions that were better than the IBM PC that came
later, 3 channel sound capability, the ability to add a second processor, an
OS that was really neat. It was one nice piece of kit, ahh nostalgia.

Paul Richards.


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