Ron,

I've seen a few exhibits that used audio boxes usually used in supermarkets
for advertising.  They're cheap, battery operated, and fairly robust, but the
audio quality is pretty low.

Try contacting Mike Leister at the Air Mobility Command museum in Dover,DE
[log in to unmask]  for specifics.

Richard Urban
Operations Coordinator
Colorado Digitization Project
http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org
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On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:57:37 -0700 Ron Fellows <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Greetings, museum folks:
>
> We are planning 20 brief recordings for various
> exhibits in our museum.
> The plan includes a digital recorder, speaker,
> and push-button to
> activate the sound for each display.  The quote
> that we have is about
> $1,000 per systen -- $20,000 total.   Seems too
> much to me.  Any other
> suggestions?  What is working in your museum
> and at what cost?
>
> Ron Fellows, Associate Director
> Heritage of the Americas Museum
>
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