beavis wrote: <snip>
The Apple IIgs, introduced in 1986, was the first Apple II to provide sampled sound and music, with an Ensoniq DOC on board, and was a much better system than what the Mac had. It wasn't added to later models for reasons relating to the lawsuit with Apple Records. None of the above machines could *input* audio without additional sampling hardware. The first Apple computer with built-in sound *input* was the Mac IIsi, released in October of 1990 right along with the LC.
The IIgs actually had the sampling hardware in place, and lacked only an external connector for a line level audio input. -michael Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."