Just found some outboard gear on the side of the road

Aequitas123 · Post by **Aequitas123** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:49 pm

Can anyone help me out with this?

Its a Pro Tools/Digidesign Quad Audio Interface. Pretty old looking. Searching Google said it's either an SA4 or a 442 NuBus Interface.

Anyone know what this is actually called and what i can do with it. I have no cables but got it running with a powercord.

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:56 pm

Aequitas123 wrote:NuBus Interface.

Hehe... NuBus, wow, that is old.

PHY6 · Post by **PHY6** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:25 pm

Found this in a garbage container at work some years ago....

It has some nasty earthing problem, anybody knows how to fix this ?

Johnisfaster · Post by **Johnisfaster** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:26 pm

found some "outboard gear" on the side of the road? thats funny that you had to tell us it was "outboard gear" cause we might have thought you found a vst on the side of the road

Machinesworking · Post by **Machinesworking** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:42 pm

Most insane one I ever heard of is a guy up here who worked at an electronics recycling center, who pulled an Arp 2600 from the clutches of doom!

H20nly · Post by **H20nly** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:47 pm

its mine. it fell off my truck. i was on my way to sell it to cacti's friend.

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:54 pm

Machinesworking wrote:Most insane one I ever heard of is a guy up here who worked at an electronics recycling center, who pulled an Arp 2600 from the clutches of doom!

Indeed. Lucky fella! I keep meaning to comb garage sales for long lost treaures...

Silverfish · Post by **Silverfish** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:27 am

You just fulfilled a dream of mine.

Sometimes I have this terrible nightmare where someone has a sought-after piece of gear, and they're about to destroy it for no good reason. Usually in the dream I rescue it.

cacti · Post by **cacti** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:55 am

H20nly wrote:its mine. it fell off my truck. i was on my way to sell it to cacti's friend.

he'd prob pay you a boat load for 'vintage' pro tools gear

Da hand · Post by **Da hand** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:30 am

Johnisfaster wrote:found some "outboard gear" on the side of the road? thats funny that you had to tell us it was "outboard gear" cause we might have thought you found a vst on the side of the road

Actually, on a computer "Outboard" refers to external parts and "Onboard" refers to parts attached directly to the motherboard. So I imagine the OP wasn't really referring to physical vs virtual

Aequitas123 · Post by **Aequitas123** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:50 pm

Da hand wrote: Actually, on a computer "Outboard" refers to external parts and "Onboard" refers to parts attached directly to the motherboard. So I imagine the OP wasn't really referring to physical vs virtual

Precisely. Although i would like to find some good VSTs on the side of the road.

Now, has anyone heard of this thing or know anything about it? Can someone confirm what its actually called?

Here's a picture of it that i found on Google: http://laternamagica.org/Techinst/Detal07s.jpg (its the second from the bottom).

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