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From: tmottonen@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: Soundblaster for MCA
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.001743.5756@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 29 Mar 91 00:17:43 GMT
References: <1991Mar18.104758.1490@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1991Mar19.214242.29332@d.cs.okstate.edu>
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In article <1991Mar19.214242.29332@d.cs.okstate.edu>, ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) writes:
> From article <1991Mar18.104758.1490@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, by kluge@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Kluge):
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I have just come home from the Hannover computer trade fair CeBIT.
>> The German distributor of Creative Lab's Soundblaster - CPS -
>> told me that the Microchannel version is ready and in stock and will
>> ship this week. The card was sold on the trade fair for about
>> $400, but this may be a German price, US price supposedly much
>> cheaper.
> 
> Well, I was told there are already a few of the production version 
> microchannel Sound Blaster in the US, with the packing, shrink-wrap, 
> instruction book, and everything.  Mass delivery will start soon.  
> How many exactly you ask?  TWO!  Ha, ha, ha.  Sorry to get you hopes
> up high.  But the masses is enroute.  

    I called  Brown  Wagh  Publishing  at  (408)  378-3838 and got the
    following info:

    SoundBlaster for MicroChannel is similar to  the  ISA  bus  model,
    except that it has no stereo amplifier on board. CMS chips are not
    included. MIDI  is  still  non-standard  (they called it "the UART
    standard" :-)).

    The list price is $349.95. Preorder price is $250 (offer will last
    until the thing actually ships, which is maybe a week from now).

    BTW, I heard that Hercules  is  finally  shipping  a  MicroChannel
    version of  their  Graphic  Station Card. Anyone have more info on
    that ?

    Teemu.
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