> There was a time when you have to install a dedicated sound card in order to have audio coming out from your PC. You have a number of options but there was on

> There was a time when you have to install a dedicated sound card in order to have audio coming out from your PC. You have a number of options but there was one particular name that dominated the scene for so many years and that name is Sound Blaster, for which you have Sim Wong Hoo to thank. Not only that, but doing so put you on an upgrade path. There were so many models released over the years. Just a tad like graphics cards today. And it was an ordeal to get Linux working with them. Every. Single. Time. Hearing that test sound: "Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as Linux" was grounds for a major celebration. Kind of shocking to recall that there was a time when you had to plunk one of these cards into a computer before you could hear much of anything useful.