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- From: maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J L Saunders)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: That 1000 pound sampling card
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 00:18:25 -0000
- Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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- Summary: Are we being ripped off? You decide!
- Keywords: Rip off, 16 bit 44.1 kHz sampling, SCSI
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- I remember a while ago reading about a 16 bit sampling card for the Arc
- costing about 1000 pounds. Does anyone have any idea how much one would cost
- these days? I'm interested because in BYTE I've seen a news item about the BSR
- MediaMaster 16 bit sound board that can sample and play back sound at 44.1
- kHz. It also includes vector-based processing with 128 built-in digitized
- instruments and sound effects. All this for 199 dollars!
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- Do you think that maybe makers of Arc peripherals are ripping us off? I know
- for a fact that buying a SCSI disk drive from a supplier of Arc SCSI cards can
- be several hundred pounds more expensive than buying from a normal computer
- peripheral supplier.
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- Comments?
-
- Jason
-
- Disclaimer: I do not work for either BYTE or BSR.
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- Jason L Saunders [ RouE ]
- email: maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk
- snail: Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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