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.

ZuluIDE emulates a parallel ATA ATAPI CD-ROM drive, or parallel ATA Zip/Removable (read and write) media - ZuluIDE/ZuluIDE-firmware ...

CD-ROM proved especially irresistible to game publishers, which had long been constrained by the skimpy capacity of floppy disks.

Bill Gates shared a nostalgic post from his younger days with a CD-ROM. Now almost obsolete, CDs were one the best ways to store information in the 90s.

CD-ROM Magazine issue 2 cover disc, published September 1995.Originally uploaded by https://www.abandonware-magazines.org ...

Robotic arms and actuators are compelling things to watch, and as popular among the maker set as they are crucial to modern industry. [kthod2000] built a design of their own, which relies on parts … ...

The exciting thing about CD-ROM was it was interactive – but what did that actually mean? Interacting with A Hard Day's Night CD-ROM. Video playback was at 12fps. No one was quite sure, but education ...

CD-ROM IDE BUS Ver. 2.22 Interface: IDE/ATAPI MSCDEX.EXE Found on old harddisk, not sure which brand etc This CD-ROM device driver software is compatible with MS-DOS versions 3.1 or later. The ...

This is the story of what really happened to the Super Nintendo CD-ROM. CDs were a hot new technology in the early '90s that promised to replace cartridges in a few years. As such, the new format even ...