CD-ROM has quietly, but quickly, gained respect as an affordable medium for storing -- and distributing -- images of documents, graphics and photographs. Dramatically lower costs, for both the ...

If, on the other hand, you were among the few who invested in CD-ROM when it was first released in the mid-1980s, you definitely made the right choice when it came to storage media. However ...

It was fun while it lasted. At the time, it was the CD-ROM that had captured the imagination of consumers and the entire publishing industry. The high-capacity optical discs enabled mass ...

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.

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, ...