[R-390] DSP IF

[Richard Loken]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Mark Huss wrote:

> these things.  My shack computer being an old 266 MHz computer.  
> Previous attempts with this resulted in delays up to seven seconds in 
> the audio.  Makes it  a real pain to tune with.  

7 seconds with a 266 hmm?  Now what would the delay be with the proposed 
tube type DSP?  Suppose we could build it out of TWT's to get the speed up.
How fast a digital processor can you build with a bunch of 12AX7's like IBM
used to implement the 701?

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