First post, by Scythifuge
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Greetings,
When I was a teen back in the ancient year of 1993, we replaced our Commodore 64 with a 486SX-33 (I think the brand was CTC Computer or something like that) from Sun TV & Appliances (I miss that place, along with Media Play and the 1990s in general.)
It didn't come with a cd-rom drive and I convinced my mother of the importance of owning one, so the sales rep helped me harangue my mother into buying a Reveal Multimedia Upgrade Kit. This came with a 2x CD-Rom drive, a sound card of some sort, speakers, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, King's Quest VI and Stellar 7 on cd-rom discs, and some other software - I want to say Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and the Software Toolworks cd with games like Life and Death on it, but my memory is a bit hazy on those last discs. I remember that it was torture waiting for the call from Sun so that we could pick up the PC since they installed the kit, due to my lack of knowledge at the time (I remember asking Mr. Miller, the sales rep, for a PC with 16 bit and 32 bit slots because I was a neophyte and didn't know what I was talking about outside of the fact that there were games like Wolfenstein 3d with animated blood - which was a big deal at the time, and games with digitized speech which was like witchcraft after coming from the C64 and the NES/SNES and other consoles.) It also game with various 3.5 floppies such as driver disks and the Voyetra Multimedia Esesentials floppies with Audiostation.
To make a long story short, I am seeking information on the sound card which came with that kit. I came across pics of the Voyetra floppies which included a TeleVideo Tele Sound / Wave driver floppy. Seeing "TeleVideo" made me remember the kit because it was a Televideo card which came with it. I am seeking information on this kit, specifically more information on this sound card so that I can attempt to hunt one down. I have no idea which chips were on that card. I remember setting up all of my games to support Sound Blaster Pro.
If anyone has information on "CTC Computers," that would be great as well. I am trying to figure out what sort of videocard I had with that first PC. All I remember is that I never had any issues running any software, video-wise, with that card. We ended up trading the 486SX into Sun TV for a CTC 486DX2-66 an I think most cards and the drive migrated over. We ended up shipping that to CTC for warranty purposes, and I convinced them to let us trade up for a Pentium-90 with Windows 95 (which had just been released) on CD, and I believe the cards also migrated over to that, so I used the same video card from 1993 to around 1998 or so.
Many thanks!
Scythifuge
