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First post, by Cga.8086

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i have not seen pictures for many years one of those CDrom + soundcard kits that were sold in the 90s, the kits were sold in order to upgrade your 486.
I remember my first kit came with a 1x cdrom + a media vision PAS16. They used to come with some cdrom games for you to enjoy the power of CD-rom + souncard.
The game i only remember as battle chess, fantastic game to show the power of CD + soundcard.

has anyone in the forum kept a kit like those in the box? it would be nice to look at some pictures.

Reply 1 of 8, by Anonymous Coward

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I think I still have the box and software/ manuals, but I sold the hardware. My kit kind of sucked anyway (no cdrom games)

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Reply 2 of 8, by pan069

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You mean like this?

I bought this new in box about a year ago. Haven't used it yet, need to come up with a build for it, probably a 486 or something. I added the memory to the card myself...

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Reply 3 of 8, by Anonymous Coward

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That was a pretty sweet kit. The pack in titles are great. It looks to be from 1995. I got my Discovery CD 16 in February 1994, and it was made obsolete by those 4x kits almost immediately. If you wanted a 2x drive, 1993 was the year to get one.

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Reply 4 of 8, by Horun

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Yes a CT-3930 ! Great card as it is jumper set, not PnP. Excellent Creative package ! I bought same card but not in a package back about 1996. Cannot remember buying any complete Media kits only bare retail boxed cards....

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Reply 5 of 8, by Jo22

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Cga.8086 wrote on 2020-07-18, 03:47:

has anyone in the forum kept a kit like those in the box? it would be nice to look at some pictures.

Here you go. 😁

Media Vision Memphis Multimedia Kit

Re: Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum Build ?

There used to be normal PAS16 Kits, too.
As for the games..
I used to have got a blue compilation box with a plastic handle and clouds drawn onto the box..
Unfortunately, it is gone. But I still have the CDROMs.. 🙂

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Reply 6 of 8, by maxtherabbit

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No box or accoutrements, but still have the Texel 2x SCSI caddy loading CDROM and PAS16 from the original bundle my dad bought us in the 90s. SCSI port in the PAS is dead sadly, but they both still work fine otherwise

Reply 7 of 8, by SETBLASTER

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pan069, thats a really nice kit. the first kit i bought came with encarta94, awesome thing to copy and paste school work when nobody had a Cdrom in their house.

mine did not come with microphone, the same microphone came with a retail box of microsoft voice, fail experiment on microsoft sold for windows 3.1 voice recognition software, that would also fail twice with windows vista , and would also fail with xbox one.

Reply 8 of 8, by Anonymous Coward

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Did Encarta 94 actually have anything of value to say? Often times topics were missing, or there were just a few blurbs. I had the 1994 edition of Grolier and it was pretty much worthless for homework assignments. Even the real encyclopedia (Britannica) was kind of useless most of the time, requiring a trip to the dreaded library.

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