NeXTstation questions - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 May 2001

On May 22, Jeff Hellige wrote:
...
  On Tue, May 22,
2001 at 02:58:43PM -0400, Jeff Hellige wrote:
   What is
the purpose of the "DSP" port? (Two triangles beside it, one
 pointing up and one down, and the connector is 15-pin) 
	I'm sure there must have been something that was made to plug into
  that port, but I don't know what.  It leads to a Digital Signal
  Processor. 
Yeah I think there's a sound box with a speaker, and some audio connectors.  
 	The soundbox plugged into the same cable as the monitor, both 
 of which plugged into the monitor output.  I've yet to see anything 
 that plugged into the DSP port, though I'm sure there must have been 
 stuff. 
  Two products called "Digital Eyes" and "Digital Ears", that allowed
for video and audio digitization.  Also the DayDream box, a small box
that basically turned your NeXT into a Mac Quadra if you booted the
right kernel.  Those were the only commercial products that I've seen,
though there have been rumors of others.

         -Dave McGuire