Subj : Re: Is a PC optical drive
To   : POINDEXTER FORTRAN
From : Cougar428
Date : Sat Apr 26 2025 08:17 am

-=> Quoting Poindexter Fortran to Xqtr <=-

 -=> xqtr wrote to Nightfox <=-
 
 xq> Back in the 90s, i had a 386 machine, which had a CDROM... that device
 xq> was only to use with the PC and read data or music. To listen music
 xq> from an audio CD, you needed to power on the PC and use some software
 xq> to play the audio...

 PF> Proprietary CD-ROM drives from the 90's - bad flashbacks! Either
 PF> playing audio through tinny tiny underpowered speakers or through your
 PF> Walkman headphones if you had your computer on the desk. Otherwise, the
 PF> cord wasn't long enough and you were out of luck.

Most of them also had an internal connector so you could plug it into
your Soundblaster card and get some decent tunes from your Pioneer
headphones - albeit with twisty phone corded wired connection. My
Soundblaster with surround sound logitech speakers (with booming base
box) was the shizzle back then. So the music from my propietary CD-ROM
was 'kickin' some beats.

(sorry back to the present)

.... Not much is worse than being peerless in a peer-review system.

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