unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) (11/13/89)
In A+ magazine for the last few months before its demise and in InCider/A+ magazine up until a month or two ago, I was seeing an ad for a "GSterio" [sic] card for somewhere around $32 mail order. I do not know what brand it is, that's the only name I can remember and I think it is the only name given with the product. It seemed that I always would notice this ad, but I wasn't that interested in buying a stereo card and speakers at that time. I think that Mr. Murphy (as in Murphy's Law) has struck again. Now that I am interested in a stereo card, I can't seem to find that ad anymore, even in my old back issues! If anyone has ANY information regarding this particular stereo card or another very inexpensive (i.e. less than $50) stereo card, please MAIL it to me as I believe other people wouldn't be interested in this. Even information about building my own stereo card (not quad-card as was posted recently) would be helpful but I'd rather just buy a premade one. I think one of the other relatively inexpensive cards I found was by Applied Engineering or some other big name company... But I saw that in the mail order ads, one had "(digitizer)" or something similar after its name, but sold for the same price as the one above it. Does the digitizer one ALSO act as a stereo card? Even though I'm not that interested in getting a digitizer, if it's FREE in this sense I might as well get it. If this card really did sell for $32 if my bad memory is correct, I'd guess it cost less than $20 to make... And in bulk quantities could probably be made for even $10 or less... Geez, you'd think Apple coulda taken $10 off of their most likely huge profit and built in stereo for a computer with such sound capability! Seems to me to be a big mistake. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. -- unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu Please use the former address. The latter is provided unknown@darkside.com just in case something mail is bounced from the former.
throoph@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Henry Throop) (11/13/89)
In article <5725@lindy.Stanford.EDU> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes: < < In A+ magazine for the last few months before its demise and in <InCider/A+ magazine up until a month or two ago, I was seeing an ad for <a "GSterio" [sic] card for somewhere around $32 mail order. I do not know <what brand it is, that's the only name I can remember and I think it is the only <name given with the product. I believe the card you mention was made by Applied Ingenuity, and when I called them a few months ago enquiring about it, they said it was no longer made and they didn't have and left. I guess they got knocked out when AE introduced their Sonic Blaster, but some people don't have $129 for it. There is also a schematic in Gary Bond's _Inside te Apple IIGS_ (Sybex, 1986), but I blew up the parts for it in another project before I got around to building it. The parts cost about $6, so I'm sure Apple could have built it in with no financial hardship incurred. >unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu Please use the former address. The latter is provided >unknown@darkside.com just in case something mail is bounced from the former. Henry --- Henry Throop Internet: throoph@jacobs.cs.orst.edu