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From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: PC sound digitizing
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Date: 12 Oct 90 17:10:09 GMT
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In article <36690027@hpfinote.HP.COM> pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) writes:
>
>Sound Blaster card ... Around $150-$160. You get both a recording
>card (of course you have to supply the microphone) and a sound
>card for playing games (Adlib compatible). In stereo, I think.
                                            ^^^^^^^^^
Nope.  Two speakers, yes, but Adlib mode is still Mono.

The two C/MS chips will add stereo capability along with another 12
voices or so, but don't sound as pretty.

>Will also do MIDI if you buy the optional MIDI box. But the MIDI
>interface on this one is non-standard.

Also, the digitizing inputs can only sample at up to 14KHz or so.
Not quite frequent enough to satisfy the demans of the original post.
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