Do you own the rarest PC sound card in the world?

The complete history of a rare sound card you've probably never heard of: The Mindscape Music Board. How the board came to be, what it sounds like, the state of sound cards in the 1980s, technical specifications, how rare the board is, what it was like to use, and the future of the board in retrocomputing are all covered. This video was several years in the making. If you'd like to help support me making content like this, please share this video with friends who might be interested in DOS sound cards, the Apple II, making music with personal computers, or any other kind of vintage computing history. If you want to help defray the cost of producing videos like this, you can support me financially by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheOldskoolPC Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 02:34 - The PC soundcard landscape of the 1980s 05:00 - The Mindscape Music Board's History 20:41 - Was it legal to make an unauthorized clone? 22:30 - Technical specifications 26:36 - Using Bank Street MusicWriter 31:44 - Live transcription using the board 35:18 - Do you own one of the rarest PC sound cards in the world? 39:15 - Provenance (My History) 42:13 - Example songs written or transcribed for the board 44:47 - The Future Links and references in the video: - Software, manuals, example music files, and more: http://archives.oldskool.org/pub/drivers/Mindscape/Music%20Board/ - Tales of Weird Stuff's Mindscape Music Board adventure: https://youtu.be/6fSpnIUDpeY?si=shWvyLLZDCWavOg9 - Mindscape Music Board clone project: https://github.com/pancakepuppy/mindscape_music_board_re - Pekka's PC Soundcard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PekkaLeppaluoto - Pekka's Ultima 6 song: https://pekkaleppaluoto.com/accidental-empires/U6B_BSM.ZIP - Brandon Cobb's Vintage Computing website: https://diskman.com/ - Identifying counterfeit shrinkwrap: https://youtu.be/l3ap_4Ev2q4?si=FNebdBlnlDdMpLMM Special thanks to the following people who helped with this video: - https://www.youtube.com/@iiidiy for creative and technical advice - https://www.youtube.com/@BrassicGamer, for a fantastic article that helped fill in some gaps: https://brassicgamer.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-almost-definitive-pc-sound-card.html - The VCF Forum, for a discussion on pre-adlib sound cards: https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/pre-adlib-pc-sound.60162/ - https://www.youtube.com/@Cloudschatze and https://www.youtube.com/@NerdlyPleasures for being my sound card sounding boards for over a decade Gear I use to make my videos: https://kit.co/mobygamer/4k-youtube-on-a-budget Contact info: Bluesky: @oldskool.org Email: http://www.oldskool.org/personal