Citation->  Newsbytes, Nov 21, 1989, NEW11210079, COPYRIGHT Newsbytes Inc.
            1989, *** Full-text article (1855 characters, 46    lines) ***

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Title->     Comdex: PC stereo card called Sound Blaster. (product
            announcement)

Authors->   Blankenhorn, Dana

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Companies-> Creative Technology Private Ltd._product introduction

Products->  Creative Technology Sound Blaster (Circuit board)_product
            introduction

Subject Hd->Product Introduction;  Boards-Cards;  Sound Processing

Article #-> 08225052

COMDEX: PC STEREO CARD CALLED SOUND BLASTER LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, U.S.A., 1989
NOV 14 (NB) -- Every year Comdex features a neat product from someplace you
never heard of, exhibited in some out-of-the-way place. The best such
product at this show, on display at Bally's, is from Creative Technology PTE
Ltd. of Singapore, and it's called the Sound Blaster.

Creative Technology calls it a PC Stereo Sound Card for IBM PC compatibles.
Distributed in the U.S. by Brown-Wagh Publishing, the Sound Blaster offers a
proprietary voice digitizer and a MIDI interface, which means you can adapt
it to any synthesizer. Over 100 software titles, mostly games, already
support it, and the company is working on business applications such as an
automatic dictator which can take a taped executive's voice and create an
ASCII file. Richard Brown of Brown-Wagh says it will ship to this country in
quantity starting in January, at $239.95. It's also compatible with the
Ad-Lib card and Creative's own Game Blaster card. Any kind of sound can be
input directly to your computer's memory through a microphone jack, and you
can also plug any tape player or CD player through the same jack, creating
custom presentations.

(Dana Blankenhorn/19891114/Press Contact: W.H. Sim, Creative Labs Inc.,
415-742-6106)