Step back to the early CD-ROM era, though, and things were a little kookier. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, drives hit the market that required the use of a bulky plastic caddy to load discs.

ok, I got a Sony VAIO SR laptop(the kind without a floppy or CD drive built in) I'm a pretty big fan of roller coaster tycoon, star craft and UT. Unfortunately all of them ask for the install CD ...

As far as we can tell, that was a later revision that Sony & Phillips did, which added a 32-bit 21.477 MHz RISC CPU to the unit. As far as what it would look like, we did get a glimpse of that ...

Nine Times the CD-ROM Rating Each DVD X is equivalent to roughly nine X's of CD speed because a DVD 1x is 1.39MB and a CD-ROM 1x is 150KB. See DVD player and CD-ROM drives .

Reader Deborah has a Toshiba laptop running Windows 7. A few weeks ago, the system starting treating the DVD-ROM drive as a mere CD-ROM drive. It could play and burn CDs, ...

Backpack-brand external drives were delivering multimedia via the parallel port way back before laptops came with CD-ROM drives or PC Card slots, and they’re still at it: The Triple Play is so named ...

QUESTION: My computer does not recognize my CD drive. It stopped doing this so I thought the CD player was just shot. I put in a new one and got the same result. I switched IDE cables, same result.

The prototype features a slot for Super Famicom and Super Nintendo games and a CD-ROM drive which was meant to play discs. While the drive was not working when it was found in 2009, it has been ...

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.

Renowned modder gets CD-ROM drive to load a game. Renowned modder gets CD-ROM drive to load a game. ... Sony even announced it as the “Play Station” at the Consumer Electronics Show in June 1991.

A lot of people don’t know that Sony wasn’t preparing to go into the console business all those years ago. Their PlayStation console started life as the CD-ROM add-on for the once king of the ...