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Startrack audio card: The variants

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

1. Installation in the Atari TT (VME bus front panel)
2. Installation in the Hades 060 or Milan (5 1/4 inch panel)
3. Installation in a 19 inch industrial case (3U VME slot expansion with several slots)

 

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.
The DSP connection (26 pin high density Sub-D socket) can, of course, also be integrated more beautifully into the case.
To do this, you have to drill a hole into the case and mill it out accordingly.

The VME bus slot

 

The metal cage with feed-through 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 ribbon cable

 

Module before installation

 

Front view of the 5 1/4 inch module inserted into the Hades060 Tower case

 

The Hades060 mini tower with audio card

 

Installation in a 19 inch industrial case

The installation in a 19 inch industrial case offers a relatively large amount of space for additional extensions.
The first example shows installation in a 5 1/4 inch module.

Installation of the case into a 19 inch rack

 

Slide into 5 1/4 inch slot

 

Open case with audio card in 5 1/4 inch module

 

In the second variant, a 4 slot VME bus backplane is installed in the case. In addition to installing the Startrack audio card, this enables the installation of other hardware such as network cards, graphics cards, and more.

4 Slot VME backplane in 19 inch cage

 

Back of the backplane and the 19 inch case

 

Integrated backplane with audio card. Here you can see how the DSP cable is led out.

 

The Jam-Out interface with 8 analog outputs is connected to the DSP port.

 

The Jam-Out interface was screwed to the case.

 

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

 

 

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