You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar ...

Through the looking glass: The compact disc's 43-year journey, from technical experiment to a worldwide standard, tells the story of how global collaboration and bold engineering can reshape entire ...

Everything fails eventually, but moving parts fail fastest of all– and optical drives seemingly more than others, at least in our experience. Even when they work, vintage drives often have trouble ...

I have a PicoGUS 2.0 which works great for sound in GUS/SoundBlaster/Adlib mode. I wanted to try out the CD Rom emulation in v3.0.0/3.1.0 on my 486 as while it does have a standard CD-ROM drive in it, ...

CD-ROM Drive Market Furnish Information about Market Size, Market Share, Market Dynamics, and Projections Spanning from 2025 to 2032. A CD-ROM drive is an optical disc drive designed for reading data ...

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ROME, N.Y. -- Today marks National CD Player Day, and an interesting fact is that the inventor of CD-ROM technology was from Rome. John Dove was born on June 4, 1924, in North Carolina. After serving ...

Frontiers Of The Mind is cursed, by which I mean that 7-Zip turned red while I was extracting the file. What unsightly encounter deep within the bowels of my download file caused this temporary ...

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In the innocent days of the early 90s the future of personal computing still seemed to be wide open, with pundits making various statements regarding tis potential trajectories. To many, the internet ...

In 1994, multimedia discs—from encyclopedias to magazines—flooded the market, and felt like the future. It was fun while it lasted. At the time, it was the CD-ROM that had captured the imagination of ...