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From: cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Can I put a bigger speaker in my 386?
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Date: 10 Jul 90 07:44:35 GMT
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flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett) writes:

> 
> I assume you are using remac.  A larger/better speaker makes it
> sound a lot better.

It sure does! I put a surplussed boom-box speaker on my machine today,
and remac really sounds off now!
> You might look into a speaker with an
> amplifier built in while you're going: then you get a volume
> control which is nice for the things you want to turn off as well

I put a switch in to select the internal speaker or external. My
external has no volume control, so error beeps would _definitely_ get my
attention.

I ran into one wierdness, though. My system is an 8-Mhz XT motherboard
with a 12-Mhz Orchid TwinTurbo 286 card. I was playing with clock speeds
and found that remac sounds almost as good at the slow m-board clock.
However, if I turn off the memory cache, the long samples (HAL and
Good Morning, Vietnam!) would sound slow... then toward the end, they
would begin looping the last second or so of sample. I had to use the
BRB (Big Red Button) at this point, as the keyboard wasn't being read at
all.
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