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by pcdoodle 870 days ago
Was hungry for money installing CCTV cameras back in the day via 4CH PCI NTSC Capture Cards.

Restaurant customer was really impressed with the tech and kept making new demands:

Q: Can we listen to this cool pandora.com thing over the restaurant speakers?

A: Yes, I we'll use the CCTV cables to run audio from your DVR PC (Pentium 4 I think) to the restaurant AMP. I had the bits and bobs in my car to go from BNC to RCA / 3.5mm.

Q: That's awesome, now can I talk to the customers to make announcements?

A: Sure, see this little speaker icon in the system tray? talk into this mic when you uncheck "mute". Don't forget to mute pandora first.

Q: That's awesome, but I want to make the annoucement from the host station.

A: Let me grab my laptop... Google: VB6 LPT Port. Google: VB6 Volume Mixer. Copy Copy Paste Paste.

Alright, I'm going to mount this old mouse on your wall and solder 2 wires to the clicker (Then to LPT on the DVR PC), it will automatically enable this wall mic when you click the button...