Like many I got a sound blaster as part of a multimedia kit that included a cdrom, SB card, and some games. Unlike many, I suspect, I also used it as a poor-ma

Like many I got a sound blaster as part of a multimedia kit that included a cdrom, SB card, and some games. Unlike many, I suspect, I also used it as a poor-man's digital oscilloscope at work, simply by sampling the microphone input (or line input? I don't remember.) it worked well enough (although all flat signals reverted to the middle.) But it was enough to show the value of a digital scope over an analogue one, and we made a big of money, and so bought a real digital oscilloscope (for what was then, to us, quite a lot of loot.) Those were the days of miracle and wonder.