Advice on adding a CD Rom player needed.

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From: Robert Alan Watts
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 00:00

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I have an old system which consists of the following bits and pieces.

386 DX 33 MHz
8 MB RAM
3.5" and 5.25" Floppy drives
Iomega Tape 250 Insider tape drive
125 MB and 540 MB hard drives (Both Seagate IDE)
Soundblaster 2 sound card
AMI Bios 1985-90

I would like to buy Borland's Delphi, but apparently it's only
available on CD. Therefore, I need to add a CD drive.
I don't need anything fancy, just the cheapest option possible.
Can anyone give me an idea of the best way to proceed?
I suspect that the choices will boil down to upgrading my sound card
to one that has a CD interface or getting a new serial card with more
IDE thingies. I am prepared to ditch the 5.25" floppy as it's never
used.
What do people think?
Cheers, Rob Watts.

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