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Trixter said:
Holy crap. Maybe I should sell one of my IMFCs...
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Exactly how many are you hoarding man to drive the prices this high? ;)

In the 4+ years of intense looking for vintage items I've only seen the card come up TWICE. Once a few month back and it sold almost immediately for $100 (I actually saw that one in the completed filter - that's how fast it went) and the one referenced above. The one above of course is complete and looks to be minty new in box. The $100 was a loose card and "untested" as the saying on eBay goes. I am not surprised it was snatched up at that price. $500 is on the heavy end for a LAPC-I but $400 for both the card and the break out box in original packaging and clean - yeah I can see it...
 
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If anyone ever finds an IBM PS/1 Audio/Joystick Card, or even a PS/1 computer that comes equipped with one, please let me know. :)
 
My recommendation would be to setup an alert for IBM PS/1 and the card you are looking for (plus IBM part numbers) on eBay, search Craigslist regularly and ask for rear and interior pictures where possible.

Good luck! :)
 
Shadow Lord said:
Exactly how many are you hoarding man to drive the prices this high? ;)
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I have three, one in box. I used to have four but I traded one for an LAPC-1. One was ebay; the other two were private sales, one of which quite literally fell into my lap.

I also have some IBM internal MIDI test files for it sitting on a hard drive that I'm afraid to spin up because I'm afraid the drive is dead. Once I do, I'll add what I find to ftp://ftp.oldskool.org/pub/misc/Hardware/IBM/Music Feature Card
 
Trixter said:
I have an IBM PS/1 Speech Adapter, is that the same thing?
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I haven't heard of that, but this is what the PS/1 Audio / Joystick Card looks like:

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Trixter said:
Holy crap. Maybe I should sell one of my IMFCs...
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There's also the boxed Ad Lib Gold that sold in September for $180, and the recent Game Blaster that sold for $200.

The unfortunate thing is the prohibitively high cost of entry into this area of interest, and that it seems to be the deep-pocketed collectors, rather than enthusiasts, helping to drive the prices up.
 
Fortunately most of this stuff is now very accessible to enthusiasts as well:
CMS is easy to upgrade to nowadays with new chip and Philips chips, CT1350s are cheap and plentiful: same as Game Blaster
MT-32s / SC-55s are plentiful, cheap and can connect through SoftMPU: same as LAPC-I and SCB-7/55 (SCD-10/ 15& FB-01)
 
$40 for a CT1350 plus $40 for the CMS is $80 (or you just buy a CT1320 with CMS on it already) is pretty cheap compared to $200 plus you have the AdLib and SB 2.0 compatibility.
$20 for a SB16 (with SoftMPU) and $60 for a MT-32 and $80 for a SC-55 is pretty cheap compared to $400 for a LAPC-I plus whatever the GM runs (RAP-10 for $100 for example).

MT-32 and SC-55 are very common on both eBay and Craigslist for reasonable prices. I bought a MT-32 that works great for $50 including shipping on eBay last week. And SC-7s go for even less and that is fine for the GM part.
 
There was 1 on eBay last week that was pretty cheap. I guess it sold.

Roland
SCC-1: http://www.clasf.it/scheda-midi-vintage-roland-scc-1-by-edirol-in-torino-9930550/

SOLD
Roland SCD-7: EUR 51: http://cgi.ebay.de/321228877009 (I prefer 1 in the retail box)
Roland MPU-IPC-T: EUR N/A: http://members.home.nl/c.kersten/
Roland RAP-10: EUR N/A: http://members.home.nl/c.kersten/
Roland SCC-1: EUR N/A: http://members.home.nl/c.kersten/
Roland SCD-15: EUR N/A: http://members.home.nl/c.kersten/
Yamaha SW60XG: EUR N/A: http://members.home.nl/c.kersten/
CT1330: $ 35: http://cgi.ebay.com/360771959842
CT1350: EUR 17: http://cgi.ebay.de/251360278676
CT1600: EUR 16: http://cgi.ebay.de/251360282539
CT1600: EUR 8: http://cgi.ebay.de/141089629463
 
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Cloudschatze said:
If you have some time to try it out, I'd be curious to know if it's anything worthwhile. I'd looked into this board some months ago, but can't justify the current eBay prices for a complete pairing.
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I won't have time in the near future, but when my perennially-threatened-but-always-delayed sound card museum project finally starts, you can be sure it will be tested.

The only bit about it I could find is that it supposedly has the same capabilities and BIOS as the PCjr speech adapter. For some examples of what the PCjr speech adapter sounds like, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf6qFunwmBQ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuaIHVzFIvM . Not a true speech synthesizer, but rather an LPC playback and CVSD record/playback device. Three Access titles claim to support it: Countdown, Links, and Amazon.
 
Does anyone know if this is the same as the IBM PC Voice Communication Option but for PS/2s? I believe the ISA card part number is: PC Voice Communications Option 1.1 (4471/6294771). Apparently you could also get the card and the ?OS? separately:

- IBM Voice Communications Adapter (4839/6284839)
- IBM PC Voice Communications Operating System 1.1 (9910/74X9910)

Thanks.
 
Shadow Lord said:
Does anyone know if this is the same as the IBM PC Voice Communication Option but for PS/2s? I believe the ISA card part number is: PC Voice Communications Option 1.1 (4471/6294771). Apparently you could also get the card and the ?OS? separately:

- IBM Voice Communications Adapter (4839/6284839)
- IBM PC Voice Communications Operating System 1.1 (9910/74X9910)

Thanks.
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I'd think that would be what this commercial famously demonstrated:

 
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