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3 unusual facts about Orchid Technology


Creative Wave Blaster

The Wave Blaster port was adopted by other sound card manufacturers who produced both daughterboards and soundcards with the expansion-header: Yamaha, Ensoniq, Orchid, Oberheim, Guillemot, Diamond, TerraTec, Roland, and Turtle Beach.

Orchid Technology

After this successful product, the company embarked on introducing high-performance add-in cards, most notably the PC Turbo, TinyTurbo and TurboVGA enhancement cards that included 186 and 286 processors.

Weitek

The P9001 moved to PCI and became fairly popular in 1994, known as the Viper in designs from Diamond and Orchid.



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