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Startrack audio card: The variants

There were a total of 3 installation variants of the audio card.

1. Installation in the Atari TT (VME bus front sheet)
2. Installation in the Hades 060 or Milan (5 1/4 inch insert)
3. Installation in a 19 inch industrial housing (3HE VME slot expansion with several inserts)

 

Installation in the Atari TT

Installation in the Atari TT is relatively simple. Insert it into the VME slot.
However, the DSP port is then not led to the outside due to lack of space.
If this is required for extensions, you can lead it to the outside with a cable.
For this, however, a hole must be cut into the tin cage of the VME slot.
Of course, the DSP connection (26 floor three-row sub-D socket) can of course also be nicer into the housing.
To do this, you have to drill a hole in the housing and mill it out accordingly.

The VME bus slot

 

The sheet metal cage with implementation for the DSP port cable

 

Tin cage with inserted audio card and carried out DSP port cable

 

In addition to the DSP-Port cable, an optional debug cable was connected and led out

 

 

Installation in the Hades060

The audio card is built into a 5 1/4 inch slot.

5 1/4 inch insertion with audio card and VME bus fluff tape cable

 

Inbuing before installation

 

Front view of the 5 1/4 inch insert in the Hades060 Tower housing

 

The Hades060 mini tower with audio card

 

Installation in a 19 inch industrial housing

The installation in a 19 inch industrial housing offers a relatively large amount of space for additional extensions.
In the first example, installation takes place in a 5 1/4 inch module.

Installation of the housing into a 19 inch rack

 

Introduction to 5 1/4 inch slot

 

Open housing with audio card in 5 1/4 inch insert

 

In the second variant, a 4 slot vme bus baking tarpaulin is installed in the housing. In addition to installing the starting track audio card, this enables the installation of other hardware such as network cards, graphics cards, and more.

4 Slot VME baking tarpaulin in 19 inch cage

 

Back of the baking tarpaulin and the 19 inch housing

 

Built -in baking tarpaulin with audio card. Here you can see how the DSP cable is brought out.

 

The jam-out interface with 8 analog out is connected to the DSP port.

 

The jam-out was screwed to the housing.

 

Connection of a second output interface with 8 analog outputs from Soundpool: Analog 8

 

 

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