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wzddtoday at 7:32 AM1 replyview on HN

If you're 12 years old and it's the family computer (which I suspect was a not-insignificant part of the target market), you've also got to negotiate opening it up and sticking in a circuit board, adding drivers (and thus becoming prime suspect in every subsequent Windows crash), and finding some way of actually vibrating the air, which at the very least involves buying desk speakers and negotiating space on a desk which might not be your own.

Also you don't have $100.


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raw_anon_1111today at 7:51 AM

I honestly didn’t think about the “needing external speakers part”.

The motherboard on the Mac had an internal audio input slot you connected the CD player to for audio CD playback. You also connected the DOS card’s SoundBlaster daughtercard directly to the motherboard and you could play PC sounds directly through the Mac speaker.