21 Feb
2017
21 Feb
'17
9:28 a.m.
On 2/21/17 9:17 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
Hi
This has been discussed on this mailinglist before (back in -95 and
-03). But with very little information came out of that.
I'm curious about the "Q Bus Music Board" that DEC made. What system was
it used in, what software was available that took advantage of it, how
would you program it?
All I know is from the cctalk threads and a few pictures from an ebay
auction, with missleading description, that I missed out on. The number
on the green handle is "93 08036" and on the PCB there is the number
"EY-0105E-MS-0101" and it looks like it has two AY-3-8192 synthesiser
chips.
So, does anyone know anything more?
And if anyone has one they could part with, I'd be interested.
Kind Regards,
Pontus.
The board was called Gigilo.
I have one and last I tried it it was operational I also have a minor
chunk of code to do
some music under RT11. Currently deeply buried and not in my easy
search path.
It was as believed at the time I worked for DEC that it was developed
internally for
things like DECworld. Its never been clear if it was for QBUS PDP-11
use or MicroVAX.
I don't think it was ever made in quantity and mine is a unit that was
floating around
terminal and printers engineering in a random 11/23 that I still have.
The number on the handle was the handle part number and not relevant to
any product.
The AY-3 are the sound generator chips as it does two channels of sound.
The EY-0105e may be a document (spec or drawing).
Allison