Adventure in a a charity shop the second (1/?)
I never did show these "interesting things" two days ago.
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First of all I found something that will upgrade my PC into the past millennium. I do love the box though.
Why does it have a joystick port? Is this something sound cards did back then?
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Adventure in a a charity shop the second (1/?)
@BatElite
Yes, actually. The PC joystick port was also used as the MIDI port for keyboards, electronic drum kits, and similar. As such, they often came on sound cards.
Adventure in a a charity shop the second (1/?)
@BatElite
Should be noted, though, that the actual MIDI port is actually a full-sized DIN connector. But because DIN is too large for a PC extension slot, a DA-15 serial port was used to take its place.
Which surprises me that it's called DA size, because DB is larger (i.e. DB-25 serial and parallel ports) and DE is smaller (DE-9 serial port and Atari/Sega joystick port).