[X4U] Re: DVDs on legacy PowerBooks?

[Michael J. Prevost]

>Anyone know what's the oldest (legacy) PowerBook that can play a DVD?
>I'd like to get an older inexpensive PowerBook just for word
>processing. But I'd be willing to pay a bit more than I had anticipated
>if it can play DVDs (I've got two kids and we like to take long road
>trips). I've been looking at portable DVD players but if I can kill two
>birds with one stone...

I believe it was the G3 based Wallstreet PB's that first had DVD-ROM 
capability, but you also needed a PCMCIA card that was used for the 
MPEG decoding.

If memory serves....

Mike