or more modern alternatives like the Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 (my personal first sound card). You might even remember some sound cards coming with front-panel add-ins, which added volume ...

Before the AdLib sound card, sound on PCs was in a terrible shape. Since the dawn of IBM, all PCs included a speaker, but this PC speaker was only capable of sounding one note at a time.

Using the inputs on a computer’s sound card is an old trick to fake a very simplistic, AC coupled, slow oscilloscope. You can get DC operation by desoldering a couple capacitors, but if the ...