[bestham]

I remember the lp3 [1], a LPT printer port dongle / sound card. It was a DSUB-25 parallel port passthrough with a headphone jack on the side. You piped an undecoded mp3 stream into it via a Winamp plugin and any machine running Win95 or higher could "play mp3s".

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20000311130535/http://lp3music.c...

[mhd]

That sounds awesome, like an update to the old Covox Speech Thing. I sometimes miss my parallel port (or the even weirder BeBox thingamajig).