-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RJT> Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Ken Hrynchuk:

 -=> Ken Hrynchuk wrote to August Abolins <=-

 KH> I don't know. I've given up trying to keep tabs on who-bought-who,
 KH> who-went-under, who-changed-their-name, etc...

 KH> Looking for old drivers can be an educational experience, though. 

 WC> Needed a 16 bit DOS driver for my salvaged Acer 40X CD-ROM. Found
 WC> it after a bit of looking however that particular drives
 WC> manufacturer had changed hands TWICE since the drive was made!
 WC> Finally snagged the driver of some previously unknown to me
 WC> Taiwanese or Japanese web site!
 WC> Driver works just fine :-)
 WC> There is no 16 bit DOS driver for this 32X H.P. CD-ROM drive.

 RJT> That one that comes on the w98 install floppy sure seems to work with a
 RJT> lot of stuff...

Yeah I can still boot 98 rescue disk and access the CD-ROM drive
from 32 bit DOS in ramdrive but until I snag a decent large drive.... 

 RJT> Funny you should mention Acer,  as that's the one I started with in
 RJT> this machine (a 4x).  
 
VIDE-CDD.SYS works for the 40X Acer here just fine but I'm 
waiting on the big drive and 98 instead of swapping the CD drive
and sound card into the one ISA slot currently occupied by 
the ethernet card. Got the Acer, works great, while
walking the dog and spotting an NEC in a dumpster.
No 16 bit DOS driver for the H.P. CD-ROM :-(
So still no sound, no CD and no 50,666 connects with the
software 98 driven modem :-(
Running a 28,800 external modem from the serial port
out of DOS 5.0 - Win 3.1 on a 340M H.D.

 RJT> When it started to give me a lot of read errors,
 RJT> I swapped it out for a Goldstar 8x,  which is still in there,  and
 RJT> switched to the above-mentioned driver and it's been just fine ever
 RJT> since.

My 2X Creative CD-ROM - sound card still works and I bought it in 94 or
95 at 245 dollars! Ouch.
Of course I also bought a 72 pin 16M FPM parity SIMM RAM stick 
at that same price around then!
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