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Originally Posted by whswhs
I mean that you can turn a digital file into, for example, "My Sweet Lord" or the Messiah and generate an electronic analog output to headphones or speakers that sounds right.
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'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..).