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From: friedber@convex.com (Don Friedberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Soundblaster for MCA
Keywords: Sound, MCA
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.155003.4119@convex.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 15:50:03 GMT
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I just talked to the people at Brown Waugh publishing (the people who 
advertise the Soundblaster) abouth the Microchannel version and they 
gave me the following information:

1) It will be available at the end of this month.

2) Because of the smaller card size (their words) it will not have the built-
   in amplifier or the CMS sockets.

3) It will retail in the neighborhood of $349.95.  (I am not exactly sure
   of this price since I was so in shock when I heard the first number was a 3
   that I may have mixed up the rest of the digits slightly).

What exactly do the CMS sockets add to the regular soundblaster?

Does anyone else think that charging more for a card that has less function
is crazy?

				Don