I picked up my first CD-ROM drive around 1991 or 1992. The drive itself died in the mid-1990s, but the accompanying SCSI card was in use until I dumped my PC for Macs. (Late 1990s?) Cost $800 IIRC. Almost everything is gone now, though I still have the original Time Magazine and Compact Almanac CD that shipped with it. I remember that the accompanying software bundle was a big deal because it was much harder to find CD-ROM based software back then, we wanted to buy it for educational purposes (yes, even geeky teenager II2II wanted it for the encyclopedia), and CD-ROM based software was so pricey! Man, I loved playing with that software!