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It’s also the voice training you do when you set up assistant. Sometimes it recognizes my voice only and once in a while a phrase on the TV will set it off as it’s close to my inflections.

They did - also AT&T had an upright at Sears that was the very first to ship with a sound card. We used to record loud burps and people that stopped the screensaver would get a surprise.

Packard Bell most likely.

Atari 400 with a cassette tape drive and a 300 baud modem.