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From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf_at_siconic.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: Help ID this bizarro Sound Blaster
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>
> > From looking at a picture of a CT1600 (SB Pro 2) on ebay, I'm willing to
> > bet (Over 93.6% sure!) that the 40-pin header is for a CDROM drive of
> > some type, and the 2nd card is there so you can use the CDROM in an
> > external case of some sort.
> >
> > In fact, looking at this page (can't get the real site to load, so using
> > the google cache:
> >
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:fj4ZEFuJ0m0J:th99.pley.org/i/i16snd_1.htm+CT1600+sound+blaster+cd-rom&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
> > Search down the page for CT1600, and you'll see it has a "CD-ROM
> > interface". So, I'm pretty sure that's what the board is for.
>
> Ok, makes sense.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
Yes that's what it is. I have an old setup like here somewhere in my parts
bin. The difference is mine had a Molex power connector on the second card
(so the internal PC supply provided power to the external cdrom).
Received on Thu Feb 12 2004 - 00:28:33 GMT