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From: aaron@uwmacc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga VS Mac
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Date: Sat, 24-Jan-87 23:15:05 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 24 23:15:05 1987
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In article <651@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> ralph@ATRP.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Amiga-Man) writes:
>
>The presence of a serial port on any computer almost guarentees its MIDI
>hardware ability. An RS232 to MIDI converter cost $10 in parts
>and takes a night or two to solder together. It really just converts
>voltage drive to current drive. The schematic is
>in the Amiga Public Domain. You are then faced with finding software to
>talk to it, but this is available for the Amiga, Mac and IBM.
>
>                                       Ralph

You mustn't forget that the serial port must be able to operate at
31,250 bps, which is the MIDI standard speed. Most cannot, as they have
RS232 standards built in. If it has a programmable clock rate generator
for the serial port which goes up to that speed, as the Amiga does, then
you can use the port for MIDI.

Aaron Avery ({seismo,harvard,caip,topaz,allegra,ihnp4}!uwvax!uwmacc!aaron)
            (aaron%maccunix@rsch.wisc.edu)
            (aaron@unix.macc.wisc.edu)