On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Lawrence Walker wrote:
> I wanted one of the Chit-Chat Piper (?) MCA sound cards for the longest
> time but they were always too prohibitively expensive for me. Well over
> $200 IIRC. Have yet to see one offered on EPay. I thought I had read on
> the PS/2 newsgroup that they had gone out of production. They are now
> offering them for $129 which isn't a bad price but as the usual frugal
> collector I find it hard to justify when I can buy a whole non-MCA
> machine including sound card and CDRom for that price. Maybe I could
> trade one of my 8580s for one. :^) Shipping might be a bit pricey tho.
> Likely about 10 times the cost in your local thrift.
Back before the economy started to suck, I bought five of them _at_$129.
They introduced at $439. They also work on RS/6000's.
Peace... Sridhar
> On 3 Feb 2003, , vance_at_neurotica.com wrote:
>
> > Try http://www.chipchat.com/. You can still buy a 16-bit
> > sound card with 32-voice MIDI for MCA brand new for a
> > reasonable price.
> >
> > Peace... Sridhar
> >
> > On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Andreas Freiherr wrote:
> >
> > > Any sound boards in there (which happen *not* to be
> > > M/ACPA)? - Shipping a complete system to Germany will
> > > certainly be expensive, but I've been looking for a
> > > soundboard to run with WinNT on a PS/2 for ages...
> > >
> > > vance_at_neurotica.com wrote:
> > > > Anyone want PS/2 Mod 95's? Apparently some of them have
> > > > Type-IV (! -- expensive) complexes.
> > > >
> > > > Peace... Sridhar
> > >
> > > --
> > > Andreas Freiherr
> > > Vishay Semiconductor GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany
> > > http://www.vishay.com
>
>
> lgwalker_at_ mts.net
Received on Thu Feb 06 2003 - 21:55:07 GMT