First post, by p6889k
In the early 90s I had a 386SX with 80MB HDD, 3.5 and 5 1/4 floppys, but no CD rom. I didn't get a CD ROM until I moved on to Pentium and Win95. I also don't remember anyone around me having a CD-ROM on anything prior to Win95. Now I have a nice 386DX 33 build, but no CD-ROM primarily because I don't remember ever needing CD-ROM on 386 back in the 90s, and because I play CD-ROM games on some of my higher end builds - Pentium Pro 200, Pentium 4.
But I'm curious, were CD-ROMs common on 386 machines back in the day? What kind of applications or games were CD-ROM based at that time and actually benefitted from CD-ROM?
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k, 48k+, 128k, +2
Amiga 1200, 68030/40mhz
386DX/33, ET4000, SBPro2, MT32
Dual PPro/200, Millennium II, Voodoo 2, AWE32, SC-55
etc.