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From: tjw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood WA3VQJ)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Soundblaster vendors
Message-ID: <50849@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 90 17:26:07 GMT
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Reply-To: tjw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Terry J. Wood)
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In article <1990Oct19.023811.3144@uncecs.edu> mvolo@uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow) writes:

>On the Soundblaster what do those two  CMS (?) chips do? Do some ot
>the Soundblasters still come with them in place?

My soundblaster came fully populated.  It was an older model of the
product.  While it has the chips, it didn't have the new text to speech
software.  However, it did have a better reference manual with more
technical documentation.  When I purchased the developer's kit, I
received the latest software, too.

The older box displays the "compatable products" list in much larger
case than the new box.

Terry
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