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

[Bob Blaylock <BobHatesSpam@Blaylock.to>]

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:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> To answer your NEW question, the first Apple computer with built-in
> sampled audio *output* was the original Macintosh, introduced in 1984.
> 
> 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.

  Am I the only one who remembers that Apple ][ computers, from the very 
beginning, were equipped to store and retrieve programs and data from a 
standard audio tape recorder?

��On some occasion, I wrote a set of machine-language routines that 
could sample and store sound from the cassette input, and play it back 
out the speaker.� The sound quality was crappy, but it was adequate to 
record a short bit of speech, and play it back understandably.

  I would have to say, also, that it was adequate to disprove your 
statement that "None of the above machines could *input* audio without 
additional sampling hardware."

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