wa8yxm wrote:
My daughter gave me her old Dell mini-10 a few years back,, You see it had gotten sick and she could not fix it "If you can get it working it's yours" Took me fifteen minutes. But that is a story already told.
It has no optical drive, but they sell an external plug in drive that works great.
IN Fact, all the way back to my 8088 days I had an external CD drive for my computers.. All worked great.
Umm.. I have been working with computers well before 8088 was ever invented, CD drives never, ever existed on when 8088 came out.
Audio CDs was not commercially available until 1982 (a joint venture by Phillips and Sony) and DATA CDs were not introduced for quite a few years after that (early 1990s?). Bought my first audio CD player in 1987 and that cost me $200.
Data CDs didn't come out until somewhere around 386 processors and those drives were read only (not burners).
8088 computers introduced by IBM as the model 5150 (AKA IBM "PC" as in Personal Computer) in late 1981 would have had 8" FLOPPY drives or 5 1/4" FLOPPY DRIVES, huge difference since floppies required the head to touch the media and CDs use LASER LIGHT (hence the term of "optical" drive)..
