Le 2014-05-29 07:12, clipka a écrit :
> 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.
>
Mine was a 2X.

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