Today while poking around in my old hardware boxes I came across an old ISA SB 16 which I obtained probably in 1996 or so. I popped it into an old IBM PC which I had put Win98 on earlier, and started ...

What do you do when you find a ISA Sound Blaster 2.0 card in a pile of scrap? Try to repair the damage on it to give it a second shot at life, of course. This is what [Adrian Black] did with one ...

Back when we all had to use ISA sound cards, PC audio wasn't much fun. The quality was pretty poor or, sometimes non-existent - allocating resources to ISA cards could be a tricky chore. And the same ...

At a time when many home computers included sophisticated hardware used to generate music and sound effects, IBM's first PC - designed primarily for small business use - only came equipped with a ...

Sound hardware has been built into PC motherboards for so long now it’s difficult to remember the days when a sound card was an expensive add-on peripheral. By the mid to late 1990s they were ...