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> bring PC's into the "multimedia" age Yep, office drones don't need this fancy-shmancy multimeedeeaa => no sound card => no CD interface. Only when ATAPI bec
by justsomehnguy 3y ago
> bring PC's into the "multimedia" age
Yep, office drones don't need this fancy-shmancy multimeedeeaa => no sound card => no CD interface.
Only when ATAPI became the standard (and MultiI/O became integrated) the support for the CD drives come to systems without a soundcard.
> Oh and... encyclopedia. :-)
That's multimedia.
- lizknope 3y agoI got my first x86 PC in August 1994. It came with a 2X CD-ROM drive with the brand new ATAPI / IDE interface. I wanted to install Linux from CD but it was too new to have Linux support so I ended up using 10 floppies to install each Slackware disk set, back to the computer lab for the next set, and repeat.