GURPS High-Tech: Electricity and Electronics

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Originally Posted by Anthony

'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..).

Could they play a full musical work like those I cited, with understandable voices and multipart harmony and complex timbres? Or were they simple musical tones that could play the notes of a score?