gt4785b@pyr.gatech.EDU (CARTER) (12/06/87)
I wrote (talking about a MIDI adaptor for the Amigas): >The DB-25 socket and one of the switches are so the person can use his printer >too. Yeah, it would be nice to have a seperate, dedicated MIDI jack, but >a) you usually never print while MIDI-ing Mike McDaniel wrote: >So whos usin a serial interface for a printer anyway. ... I meant to say modem. But you can see that the same argument still applies: Any home computer talking to a device at MIDI speed is going to have very little time to talk to a modem or a printer at the same time, especially during MIDI recording. One nice thing about the MIDI adaptor in the Amazing article is that if you =did= want to call up a friend via modem and go back and forth between exchanging data and doing MIDI things, flipping the "modem/MIDI" switch leaves DTR (among other pins) still connected between the computer and the modem; some modems hang up when they see DTR go away. But seriously, how many of you MIDI people would =really= want to do such a thing? David Carter