I had a PS/2 Model 80 and I was desperate to have a sound card. Somehow, through a work bulletin board, my father scored me a very rare Sound Blaster Microchann

I had a PS/2 Model 80 and I was desperate to have a sound card. Somehow, through a work bulletin board, my father scored me a very rare Sound Blaster Microchannel Architecture (MCA) card. If I recall, I paid $150 for it. My friends and I would gather around to play with the text to speech utility that came with it. I can still imagine, "Dr. Sbaitso by Creative Labs" in the robo voice. They dominated until the DSP based combined sound card / soft modems took over, and then of course sound cards were eventually integrated in motherboard chipsets.