Oldest Sound Card / MIDI card? Any takers?

[QBiN]

How about... Who here has the oldest sound / midi card?

in-use or in-storage... either are fair game.

Somebody out there have a SBPro still lying around or SB1.0? Maybe an old Roland MPU card?

[apeman]

My contenders:

Roland MT-32

Roland LAPC-I

Soundblaster 1.5

Which of these is the oldest?

[Ari]

My oldest card is a 1988 Roland LAPC-I.
I also have an SB-Pro and an Adlib Gold, but they're relatively younger (early 90's).

[QBiN]

I have a MT-32, but I won't consider it for this thread... Here are my contenders. I think they stand a decent chance to pass the muster as oldest... We'll see.

1988 - Creative Music Systems (Later, Creative Labs) Game Blaster card
(worse than FM synthesis / Adlib, like a multi-voice PC speaker)

1987 - Covox Speech Thing (The original parallel port DAC itself!)

Here's a pic of the Covox:

[Arf the Lab]

My oldest sound board is the Ad Lib (OPL2) from 1989. OPL2 is the best sound chip for IBM-PC, ever. No, I am not biased. :wink: The Creative Labs Sound Blaster 2.0 (1990) is my favorite "Ad Lib compatible", since it also makes use of good DAC support. Makes for great Ad Lib music with digitized sound. Very, very nice.

What I'm very interested to own is the InterSound MDO (1989), which as far as I know from my research only works with a few games by Coktel Vision (aka Tomahawk).