Many early CD-ROM drives used on PCs were SCSI, and all of those drivers
work on the XT class (8088/8086/V20) CPUs. There were a lot of devices
from Future Domain, Trantor, and Adaptec. The Adaptec cards generally
required a 16 bit bus but the software runs fine on machines with 8 bit
slots.
> The first one I can remember was the Mitsumi CRMC-LU005S single speed
> drive, which was the one I had. It had its own card because it was
> non-IDE despite the fact that the cable and plug looked exactly like
> IDE. They did use a proprietary standard. They definitely worked on an
> 80286, so I
On Mon, 7 Aug 2023, Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel wrote:
Yeah, around 1993 was when the first ones arrived.
I know I was hearing about CD-ROM drives connected to the Apple IIgs when
I was still in grade school (so no later than mid-1990)...
-uso.
Yeah, around 1993 was when the first ones arrived.
On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 at 01:12, Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2023, Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel wrote:
>
> > The first one I can remember was the Mitsumi CRMC-LU005S single speed
> > drive, which was the one I had.
On Mon, 7 Aug 2023, Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel wrote:
The first one I can remember was the Mitsumi CRMC-LU005S single speed
drive, which was the one I had. It had its own card because it was
non-IDE despite the fact that the cable and plug looked exactly like
IDE. They did use a
The first one I can remember was the Mitsumi CRMC-LU005S single speed
drive, which was the one I had. It had its own card because it was
non-IDE despite the fact that the cable and plug looked exactly like
IDE. They did use a proprietary standard. They definitely worked on an
80286, so I think we
> On Aug 3, 2023, at 3:57 PM, Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>
> On 8/3/2023 11:54 AM, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel wrote:
>>
>>> On Aug 3, 2023, at 12:37 PM, Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
Yeah, USB and CD/DVD makes only sense for a 386+ ...
>>> USB,
On 8/6/2023 7:52 AM, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote:
Am 30.07.2023 um 20:15 schrieb Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
:
Let's try again next month.
Is this today or another Sunday?
Jim had changed it from the original July 23 to July 30, due to being
sick and then forgot about it last
> Am 30.07.2023 um 20:15 schrieb Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
> :
>
> Let's try again next month.
Is this today or another Sunday?
Greetings, Bernd
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