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.

Lewis in November 1994. At the time, it was the CD-ROM that had captured the imagination of consumers and the entire ...

While the printer out of the box comes with everything you need to install the printer's driver on your computer, not everyone can use the CD-ROM for installation. Many of today's sleek computer ...

So, in the days before ubiquitous internet connectivity, CD-ROM technology went a long way toward expanding the research horizons for college students. Essentially a digital version of a card catalog, ...