OLD 386 PC.

[slimmx]

I got a question. Did the old 386 and 486 PCs have cdrom drives?

[rcb]

dunno about 386's, but compaq made a 486 desktop with a built-in cd-rom..

[edsmith77]

slimmx,
YES. I even had an ol 1x cdrom for my 286.

[SquirrelDip]

Yes, 486 for sure - can't remember 386's...

Soundcards came around about the same time - Adlib, I believe, was the first - then SoundBlaster...

CD/Sound weren't normally included but you could do a multimedia upgrade and add a single speed CD-ROM and sound card.

[energy80s]

My first PC in 1996 was a 25MHz 386 with 4Mb of RAM and a 45 MEG hard drive! I had a soundblaster 16 soundcard in it but no CD-Rom drive.

[gammite]

My first PC in 1996 was a 25MHz 386 with 4Mb of RAM and a 45 MEG hard drive! I had a soundblaster 16 soundcard in it but no CD-Rom drive.

ouch.....

my first pc was in 1984. a ti99/4a. don't know the specs but i remember that programs would run off of audio tapes. it took a half hour to run a program and if the tape messed up you had to start over. it had some fun games though.

second computer was a commodore 64.

that 25mhz computer was the shit compared to those.

[Piccoro]

CD-ROMs were mainly combined with the original Pentiums.
That's a reason people actually bought Pentiums (besides PCI) after the problems and recall durrning that time. They shipped with CD-ROMs/PCI included which were new.
Few CD-ROMs were used with 386/486 systems from what I know.
I know Intel didn't ship any 486 with CD-ROMs.