Merchandising representatives at computer stores are struggling to keep pace with the hottest accessory for computers: CD-ROM. That stands for compact disc-read only memory. They are similar to the ...

A cable used to send audio CD sound to the computer's sound card. When playing audio CDs, CD-ROM drives output analog sound to both a headphone jack and external connector just like a CD player. This ...

System requirements: PC XT/AT or compatible computer; 640K bytes RAM; 1 floppy disk drive; 10MB hard disk; monitor; CD-ROM player with interface card and cable; MS-DOS 3.21 or higher; Microsoft MS-DOS ...

Replay: The battlefields of the audio visual world are littered with the corpses of dead formats, none more so than the fight to put moving images on to discs. With the exception of LaserDisc, none of ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. For students attending a university in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the experience was vastly different ...

This article describes how to set up a virtual CD-ROM jukebox (VCDJ) using Samba and Linux. A VCDJ is a network server that provides access to the contents of a large number of CD-ROM disks, without ...

1993: Broderbund Software releases Myst, a game for the Macintosh computer that becomes a record-setting best-seller and the killer app that sparks sales of CD-ROM drives. Brothers Rand and Robyn ...

On October 1, 1982, Sony ignited a digital audio revolution with the release of the world’s first commercial compact disc player, the CDP-101 (above), in Japan. It signaled the dawn of a new audio ...

I'm just wondering if anyone knows enough about game console architecture to tell me whether getting a CD-ROM that is built-in to a video game system such as those mentioned to function as a computer ...

, a data storage company, June 1994. 9. Chan, A., "CD-Recordable Software Lets You Burn Your Own Discs," MacWEEK, 8(48), 1994, p. 46. 10. Loope, W., Unpublished ...