From: Rob Morley on
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:56:59 -0500
Paul <nospam(a)needed.com> wrote:

> They could have, if they wanted to, thrown in their own sound card,
> one with internal jacks.

Or the connector to use internal aux audio headers, which don't really
get used for optical drives any more.

> They could also have included an RS232 chip
> if they wanted.

Or used a USB controller? It does seem rather old tech for a fairly
recent product.