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From: ephraim@think.COM (ephraim vishniac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac -> stereo
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Date: 3 Feb 88 15:41:21 GMT
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In article <1006@thorin.cs.unc.edu> glassner@unc.cs.unc.edu (Andrew S. Glassner) writes:
>I'd like to hear my Mac on my stereo, but the fellow at the computer
>shop said I should not simply use a cable with the appropriate plugs
>at the two ends (mono 1/8" to 1/4"), though he couldn't justify this
>claim.  He did make doom and thunder sounds should I be foolish enough 
>to ignore his words (okay, too many spooky games!).

>Can I connect my Mac Plus to my stereo?  How?

I connected mine exactly as you describe.  That was about two years
ago and I haven't had any problems at all.  Except, of course, that
the startup beep is thunderous as it doesn't observe the PRAM volume
setting.

Ephraim Vishniac					  ephraim@think.com
Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214