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Model Numbers:

  • CT1320 Sound Blaster 1.0/1.5
  • CT1350 Sound Blaster 2
  • CT5320 Sound Blaster MCV

The Sound Blaster cards are the original 8 bit Sound Blaster audio cards.

Hardware Specifications

  • Frequency Response: 100Hz - 10KHz
  • Signal to Noise Ratio: 48 db
  • Sampling Rate for Playback/Recording Mono: 5 KHz - 22.1 KHz (4-44.1kHZ SBPro only)
  • Supply Voltage Requirement (Loading): +5, +12, -12 Volt
  • Current Consumption (Typical): 50, 500, 30 mA respectively
  • Microphone Impedance: 600 Ohms
  • Line-In Impedance: 39 KOhms
  • Microphone Sensitivity: 10 - 200 mVpp
  • Line-In Sensitivity: 0 - 2 Vpp
  • AD/DA Resolution: 8 bits
  • Output Power (Max.): 4 Watts @ 4 Ohms PMPO (Amp out)

    Hardware Settings

    Default settings are shown in [brackets]

    • Interrupt (IRQ): 2, [5], 7
    • DMA Channel:[1]
    • Joystick I/O Address: 200 Hex
       Joystick: [Enabled]  Disabled
       JYEN         ON        OFF
      
    • Audio I/O Address: [220], 240 Hex
       ADDRESS: [220]  240 
       22X       ON    OFF
       24X       OFF   ON
      
    • FM Synthesizer I/O Address: 388 Hex
    • Wave Synthesizer I/O Address: Not Applicable
    • Sharing DMA [disabled] (DMACTL on pins 1 & 2), or enabled (DMACTL on pins 2 & 3)

    Connectors

    • Line-In: Yes (for recording purposes only!)
    • Mic-In: Yes (for recording purposes only!)
    • Line-Out: No
    • Speaker-Out: Yes
    • PC Speaker-In: No
    • Game/Joystick Port: Yes
    • CD-ROM Audio-In (SB Audio Socket): No
    • CD-ROM Audio-In (MPC2 Socket): No
    • External CD-ROM: Not Applicable

    System Requirements

    • IBM® PC XT or higher, or 100% compatible motherboard
    • VGA
    • 5 MB of hard disk space for SB software.
    • MS-DOS?4.0 or higher, Windows?3.1 or higher.
    • Open 8 bit ISA slot
    • Speakers or headphones