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Old 11th Jan 2019, 6:35 pm   #31
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Default Re: Dell CPi 233ST laptop

Wasn't this machine from the era when PCs were shipped with DVD decoder cards because the CPUs weren't adequate to decode DVD and render the graphics on the fly?

I recall a friends PC had one of these cards, which quickly became obsolete as CPUs improved. Seemed an amazing novelty at the time, even being able to play DVD on a computer, which was then a new format
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