Re: What was the first Apple computer to have built in audio?

[Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com>]

In article <081120052256238969%nobody@nowhere.com>,
 beavis <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> In article
> <john.doggett-CEF56F.19300308112005@News-West.newsfeeds.com>, Bible
> John <john.doggett@x-files.gov> wrote:
> 
> > One says this in response to a post from the apple forums where a user 
> > claims to have been able to record audio in 1985 on his mac.
> 
> Yes, "a user" was you.
> 
> > "Not in 1985, you didn't.  The first Macs with built-in audio input were
> > the LC and IIsi, introduced in 1990."
> 
> That's me.
> 
> > I personally remember recording audio and playing it back way way back 
> > during the Apple II days in the 80's. 
> 
> Your memory's failing you.  The Apple II (except the GS) could only
> play clicks through the speaker, unless you added something like a
> Mockingbird card to it.

While this is, strictly, true, that speaker could get surprisingly 
faithful reproductions of audio signals by varying the frequency of the 
clicking. I had - still have somewhere I'm sure - a software-only audio 
digitizer for the Apple II that sampled from the cassette port.


G

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