2 Apr
2003
2 Apr
'03
11:27 a.m.
>Because they occupied an entire slot (out of 5 on
the PC), and other
>companies sold "multifunction" cards that could use the same slot for
>serial, parallel, clock, and memory. Most of those were marketed as SIX
>functions - how many people remember what the other two functions were?
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Kevin Handy wrote:
floppy, game port
floppy was quite rare on multifunction cards (until quite a bit later)
game port was fairly common.
But on a lot of "multifunction" cards (such as AST, Quadram, etc.),
options 5 and 6 were:
print spooling software, and ramdisk software!