11 Feb
2004
11 Feb
'04
3:57 p.m.
On Thursday 12 February 2004 00:30, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
I have a Sound Blaster CT1600 with an odd
daughterboard attached by a
40-pin ribbon cable. The daughterboard, labelled CT1331, actually
plugs into an adjacent slot and just has a socket for the ribbon
cable, a bunch of diodes (17 to be exact) which I assume are some
sort of protection for the signals coming off the card, and a DC-37
connector on the outside.
From looking at a picture of a CT1600 (SB Pro 2) on
ebay, I'm willing to
bet (Over 93.6% sure!) that the 40-pin header is for a
CDROM drive of
some type, and the 2nd card is there so you can use the CDROM in an
external case of some sort.
In fact, looking at this page (can't get the real site to load, so using
the google cache:
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:fj4ZEFuJ0m0J:th99.pley.org/i/i16snd_1.…
Search down the page for CT1600, and you'll see it has a "CD-ROM
interface". So, I'm pretty sure that's what the board is for.
Pat
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