> At one company we had about 20 of those microphones and some of you > might even remember the speakers. They were never used... > > Here's a pic of the microphone > http://www.security-lab.de/pics/sun-mic-1.JPG.
Ah yes, I had one of those; never used it as well. The funny thing about Sun workstations is, the Crystal Semiconductor chip inside of them was very high end for his time -- it supported full duplex (recording and playback) at the same time in 16-bit PCM mono at 44.1KHz when most PCs were only beeping through the PC speaker, and Amiga had 22Khz 8-bit sound from the Paula chip. Later versions of Sun workstations had even better audio hardware; and what makes the whole story really bizarre is that a Sun machine could have been easily used for high-end multimedia and audio processing, yet nobody I ever knew used them for that, nor did I see any tools ala FruityLoops or Rebirth on a Solaris system and Sun hardware. It's really bizarre that such high-end audio remained so obscure. _________________________________________________________________ More than messages?check out the rest of the Windows Live?. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-chosug/attachments/20090913/a4d08353/attachment.html>
