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Sound Cards with IDE ports for CD-ROM drives were definitely a thing back then

• Zardoz84 1y ago
  Yeah! I'm trying to get a Sound Blaster 16 with IDE + a VESA IDE controller working on a 486DX2@66
• cestith 1y ago
  There were also a number of sound cards that had two or three ports because a lot of early CD-ROM drives weren’t IDE. You’d have a Sony, a Panasonic, and something else on your card in the early days. IDE on a sound card was an actual improvement.
  • shdon 1y ago
    The third common CD-ROM interface that wasn't IDE was Mitsumi.
    • cestith 1y ago
      Thank you. That’s absolutely right and I’m not sure why I blanked on it at the time of writing.