Subj : Re: Is a PC optical drive a "player"?
To   : xqtr
From : StormTrooper
Date : Sat Apr 26 2025 07:53 pm

 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 from
 xq> an audio CD, you needed to power on the PC and use some software to play
 xq> the audio...

Waaaaay back then there was a raft of "Audio CD Players" where the actual laser device portion of it was essentially a PC cdrom... with an IDE or one of those horribly screwed over SCSI interfaces on it.  With a bridge to the pretty buttons on the outside of the box.... They lasted here maybe 3-4 years here... before we started seeing the full plastic mechanisms with only the outer case as the shell.

ST

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