A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there ...

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.

His use of a 3-phase motor from a CD-ROM drive as the generator isn’t particularly unexpected, these motors are ubiquitous and readily generate power when spun up. A simple 3-phase rectifier and ...

CD ROM drive. Windows XP (original install, 4+ years old) finally gave up the ghost. in order to equip the machine to do a re-install, I took out the old CDROM, which despite it's snapped off ...

Ok, for some reason after posting the OTHER topic of this name it was locked instantly... wtf? Oh well anyway here is what I posted:<BR><BR>Ok I searched and the results for issues where the BIOS ...

Tenalio, Eastman Kodak's director of marketing for state and local government. CD-ROM drives have dropped below $200 and have now become a standard drive on any new PC. CD-Recordable (CD-R ...

Q: I need to replace my CD-ROM drive, which is a really slow one that came with the computer when I bought it a couple of years ago. I'm leaning toward at CD-RW drive, so I can burn my own CDs.

In terms of pure mindshare, 1994 might have been the year of Peak CD, with 17.5 million CD-ROM drives and $590 million in discs sold, according to research firms Dataquest and Link Resources.

introduced two 12X CD-ROM drives, the XM-5701B SCSI and the XM-5702B ATAPI. Both feature sustained data transfer rates of 1,800 kbps. Suggested list prices for the XM-5701B SCSI and the XM-5702B ...

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.