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Old 10-28-2019, 01:24 PM   #30
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Default Re: GURPS High-Tech: Electricity and Electronics

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Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
'Sounds right' is a weird requirement, because it's suddenly a degree instead of an absolute. Music cards in PCs existed as early as the Apple II in 1978, which is significantly before GUIs were a thing in the PC space (the original Xerox PARC windows stuff was early 70s, but the first computer-generated music was 1951..).
Yes, but music and sound cards were not part of the computers Complexity rating, they had their own processing power and memory. So they would be an add on, like a tiny dedicated computer
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