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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Yet another Sound Blaster question
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.072732.8165@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 07:27:32 GMT
References: <4858@czech.sw.mcc.com>
Organization: Oklahoma State University
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From article <4858@czech.sw.mcc.com>, by daneman@czech.sw.mcc.com (Michael Daneman):
> Looking thought a mail order catalog I saw that some places advertise
> a Sound Blaster version 1.5.  What is the difference (if any) between
> this version and other versions of SB.  Is the only difference the
> absense of CM/S chips on v 1.5? And if so, can those chips later be
> added to v 1.5?

Yes, but v 1.5 also has the speech synthesizer with variable
tone (to make it sound more human, instead of computer-like).
The CMS can be had for $20 from Creative Labs.