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From: plains!umn-cs!LOCAL!brsmith@uunet.uu.net (Brian R. Smith)
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Subject: Re: Sun and MIDI; do I have to roll my own dev driver?
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In <271@brchh104.bnr.ca> dormer@cs.purdue.edu (John Dormer) writes:
>I imagine someone else has already tackled the problem of connecting a
>MIDI device to a Sun 3-* Workstation (4.0.?), and made it work. I need to
>talk to you if either you or someone you know has done this.

I tried for a time to hack together a bidirectional baud-rate converter,
so that I could interact with MIDI from a sun, using the standard serial
ports.  I had only marginal success.  I did, at various times, get each
direction working on a breadboard, but not once I tried to wire them on a
permanent board.  Lack of decent equipment and experience...

If this sounds like what you need, let me know and I'll mail you the
schematics/part list.

Brian
brsmith@cs.umn.edu