The sound card - an adapter
The sound card itself is an ISA adapter. Here you see an AWE64 Gold card:
The connectors may look different on different sound cards, but as an example: In the back of
the AWE64 Gold card you find connectors to:
1)Microphone input, a jack
2)Line input, a jack
3)Two phone jacks for active speakers
4)A DB15 jack for MIDI or joystick.
Sound cards typically have a 2 Watt amplifier built-in. It can pull a set of earphones. The
exception is the Gold card, where the amplifier is eliminated. It has no practical significance, since you probably want to attach it to a pair of active speakers.
The sound card itself is an ISA adapter. Here you see an AWE64 Gold card:
The connectors may look different on different sound cards, but as an example: In the back of
the AWE64 Gold card you find connectors to:
1)Microphone input, a jack
2)Line input, a jack
3)Two phone jacks for active speakers
4)A DB15 jack for MIDI or joystick.
Sound cards typically have a 2 Watt amplifier built-in. It can pull a set of earphones. The
exception is the Gold card, where the amplifier is eliminated. It has no practical significance, since you probably want to attach it to a pair of active speakers.
