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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster on PS/2 50
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.154335.28821@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 15:43:35 GMT
References: <24193@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: Oklahoma State University
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From article <24193@hydra.gatech.EDU>, by hh2@prism.gatech.EDU (HAAS):
> In article <1991Mar12.022232.26336@d.cs.okstate.edu> ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) writes:
>>not work in PS/2 50 (they want $260 for a simple serial port in PS/2 50
>>as compared to $15 in an AT).  However, SB is supposed to have a 
>>microchannel version out this or next month. 
> 
> Who ARE they, anyway!?! I personally bought a 2 serial/1 par. adapter for
> under $100. Many people complain about the Delta$ between AT bus cards
> and MCS cards, but I have been watching this price difference continue
> to diminish rapidly. The only cards I have NOT seen is 1.) Sound blaster
> compatible, and 2.) a MULTIfunction card that includes a game port. But
> I've NEVER seen an AT bus card that has that data transfer rate capabilities
> of the MCA bus. (just a side note . . )

Well, it was more than a year ago...