Am 29.05.2014 09:05, schrieb scott:
>> Andrew! Remember when DVD writers cost about £1000?
>
> My first CD *reader* was about £250 IIRC, an external one that plugged
> into the parallel port (with a pass-through so you could still use a
> printer).

That sounds awfully slow; then again it was probably single-speed, so 
the parallel port may not have been a bottleneck after all.

My first CD drive (hey, it wasn't explicitly called a "reader" back 
then) was internal, connecting to the famous SoundBlaster card. IIRC it 
was already 4x speed or some such.

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