Those were some good specs back in the day... And the price ๐ฏ
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Ah yeah I realized that after. But a floppy reader too! Dude definitely reading some floppies
2X speed was impressive for the time too :)
By 1998? Nah, not really. I think I had at least a 16x by then with my stock prebuilt.
I think there may be a difference in measurement and that might where the discrepancy is. According to Wikipedia's entry on optical drives:
The 1ร speed rating for CD-ROM (150 Kbyte/s) is different from the 1ร speed rating for DVDs (1.32 MB/s).
So if that was indeed a 2x DVD drive, it would be pretty comparable (if I'm interpreting all this info correctly): 16x150,000 bytes per second= 2,400,000 or ~2.4 MB/s and the 2x DVD speed would be 1.32 MB/s x2= ~2.6MB/s
Pretty close!
Ah wait, I misread it as cd. Didn't realize it was DVD.
Cd maybe but not DVD.