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Re: Electronics Shopping, the new(?) paradigm



In article <lpQd4.817$3a.12723@news1.teleport.com>, me2@nowhere.org (Bart)
wrote:

>Guys I just HAVE to stop going by Goodwill! Today,,,I got 2 800k floppy 
>drives, 2 3.5s, 2 Unidisk 5.25s, 1 //c, 1 color composit monitor, 1 
>Imagewriter, a  raft of cables (including a Mac LC //e card Y connector: 
>$1.99), and one enticing box that had me going for a while (it cost all of 3 
>bucks and had the manual, the floppies and I could not wait till I got home to 
>see....RATS! no card! #$@&!  somethin called a Mockingboard......  I am all of 
>50 bucks the poorer....

I believe a Mockingboard was an 8 bit Apple ][ sound card of some sort,
but I don't remember exactly what it did, voice encoding, voice
recognition.  Probably someone else will tell you.
-- 
Bill Robbins, mfumu@alphalink.com.au