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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: CD players and PC's
Message-ID: <1516@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 12:21:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: hammer.1516
Posted: Tue Sep 24 12:21:23 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 02:59:53 EDT
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In article <125@ur-tut.UUCP> tuba@ur-tut.UUCP (Jon Krueger) writes:
>Anyone out there tried tapping into their CD player
>and tee-ing the digital encoding into their home PC?
>Wonder if there's any way to get CD internals to generate
>something RS-232-like enough to be read into the COMM
>port that most PC's provide.  Might be fun.  If the PC
>can keep up with the bits at playing speeds, you might
>be able to graphically display the sound.

Let's see... 44100 * 16 * 2 gives 1.4112 million bits per second
going into your home PC.  That must be *some* RS-232 port you've
got!  What sort of algorithm are you planning on using?

Snoopy
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