Owning a Sound Blaster back in the mid 90’s was probably a big deal – I wouldn’t know with my ESS AudioDrive. And although my ESS sound card wasn’t a real Sound Blaster from Creative, it was a compatible card which got the job done. Recently, a viewer sent me a Sound Blaster 32 PnP for repair. My first attempt to fix the card failed. There was just no way to get past a…
Since version 3.2, Microsoft included the file RAMDRIVE.SYS in MS-DOS (released in 1986)
Did you ever wonder why Microsoft invested effort and resources into providing a tool for creating RAM drives during a time when memory was a pricey commodity? Back in the mid-80s, your typical personal computer boasted a mere 1 or 2 MBs of system memory. Perhaps Microsoft felt compelled to compete with…