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by ErroneousBosh 198 days ago
> However cool and useful the PC speaker output was, it was the a hand-soldered "Covox" lookalike, a passive DAC built out of a resistor ladder and attached to the printer port, which you actually connected to your hi-fi amplifier.

I must have built at least a couple of dozen of these for various people.

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Good times! I made one as a kid and remember thinking there is no way in heck this thing will work. My mind was blown when it worked first time.