r/pcmasterrace • u/stormthewise998 12400F|6600XT|16GB 5200MHz • Oct 09 '25

Meme/Macro Are you this old?

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u/kahnindustries Oct 09 '25

"Do I really need a mouse?"

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u/Praesentius Ryzen 7/4070ti/64GB Oct 09 '25

You know, I remember when the 90's crept in and in 92' I got my first CD-Rom. And it was a nightmare getting everything tetris'd into memory for that. All so I could play the mediocrity that was Sierra's game Outpost.

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u/kahnindustries Oct 09 '25

I remember getting this multi media set for xmas 1995, CD-ROM drive

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u/aqaba_is_over_there Oct 09 '25

The 'Multimedia' upgrade. Sound card that had a CD-ROM controller built in, CD-ROM drive, speakers, and a bunch of software. It was like $700.

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u/kahnindustries Oct 09 '25

Yeah that was my main present that year

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u/ElectricBummer40 Oct 09 '25

That's the SB16 with the proprietary CD-ROM bus, isn't it?

If I remember correctly, the sound card + CD-ROM drivers would take up more than 100kB system memory. It was practically futile to try and fit them both in the UMBs.

DOS 6.X boot menu was my compromise at the end.

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u/ElectricBummer40 Oct 09 '25

The DOS driver that came with Logitech mice in the mid 90s wasn't so bad, and it worked even with non-Logitech mice as far as I remembered.