Afe of CD (was: Time to declare State of Massachusetts the ENEMY! He)

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Fri Apr 16 11:32:12 1999

On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Hans Franke wrote:
> Please, Max, do you belive the CD was invented together with the
> 486 ? <g> - Just for the records, I had my first (private owned)
> CD Drive on a 386-16 MHz. At the office we had an CD connected to
> a XT (a genuine PHILIPS audio drive with changed controller to
> supply raw CD data to the PC - all work was done by a 4.77 MHz
> 8088 :)), while later on most friends used 286 with CD, this
> was at a time when 286 _and_ XTs still rueled the (PC) world.
> Also there is no reason to hinder a CD from working on any 386 box.
> In fact, from todays view it es necersarry to attach a (cheap) CD
> if you want to use the 'old' 386.

And coincidentally, it was MS/PC - DOS 3.10 that was the first version to
have the "network redirector" code necessary to be able to run MSCDEX.EXE.


Also, before the days of IDE CD-ROMs, and "Sound-Card interface", there
were a lot of bizarre proprietary CD-ROM interfaces.
Received on Fri Apr 16 1999 - 11:32:12 BST