Was the kind of output you're looking for even available back then? I'd like to hear what you settled on, if you do find something. We pulled the last one out a couple of years ago. It also had that proprietary lock on the audio card, wouldn't overlap anything and inserted a nice click between every file it switched to. The last DOS-based system I got anywhere near was from Pristine. At the time, that was considered a bargain price. ![]() I think I paid something like $15,000 for the main system, the switcher and a production unit. In '92, we bought a DOS-based system that eventually became one of Scott's products. Some companies used encoding that wasn't compatible with wav or mp3 files, which was another factor that made it hard to move to a different system. Then, there's the matter of the audio files. ![]() ![]() The software wouldn't work without cards they supplied, and the cards wouldn't work without the specific software. Added to that, some of the better companies enhanced their hold on you (the customer) by forcing the sale of specific audio cards, which were serial locked to the software. ![]() At least here in the American market, the original automation systems were very expensive.
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