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From: sc151111@seas.gwu.edu (The Time Traveler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: MCA Soundblaster?
Keywords: PS/2, MCA SoundBlaster, Music, Adlib
Message-ID: <3189@sparko.gwu.edu>
Date: 11 May 91 18:50:49 GMT
References: <91126.222813CES8@psuvm.psu.edu> <1991May10.012803.23642@epas.toronto.edu>
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In article <1991May10.012803.23642@epas.toronto.edu> ksteele@epas.toronto.edu (Ken Steele) writes:
>I think I joined the internet just as the discussion was ending, but
>did someone report a MicroChannel version of the Creative Labs
>SoundBlaster card?  I love my PS/2, but finding peripherals is a real
>headache!
>
>Is the MCA Soundblaster card hard vaporware, or is it already on the
>shelves?  I can probably have someone local order one once I have an
>order number...
>

Well, some people have it, some don't.  Creative Labs had a pre-release
special price of $250.  I ordered it, but I haven't received it yet.
A rather ingenious friend of mine in Germany got his and even managed to
fix a bug in the design.  (Du, ich habe vergessen wie es geht.  Kanst
Du noch einmal uns sagen was wir machen muessen???)

That little Germany tidbit was for him.  I hope I didn't make too many
errors.  Anyway, the only difference with it is that it doesn't have 
an on-board amplifier (no real loss, because it wasn't that powerful 
anyway), and it can't support the CMS chips.  But it does have a 
joystick port!

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