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.

The photo captured nearly 30 years ago shows the tech billionaire holding a newly invented storage device - Compact Disc-Read Only Memory (CD-ROM). "Thirty years ago, we wanted to show just how ...

It’s something [Daniel1111] has done with his Arduino CD player, which uses the little microcontroller board to control a CD-ROM drive via its IDE bus.

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.

Microsoft is ending support for its Mail and Calendar apps for Windows 11, as it moves to make the new online and free ...

The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...

I purchased the Rosetta Stone Italian program many years ago. I was using it on my Mac computer. I purchased a new Apple computer, and now my Rosetta Stone is not compatible with the new system.

Still, for checking weather reports or sports scores, it's probably sufficient. Then you can buy a CD-ROM to protect your ...

Prologue is a playable preview of the fan-made Unreal Engine 5 game that aims to tell the story of what would have been ...

Exactly 20 years ago, Mozilla started shipping version 1.0 of its Firefox browser. At the time, you could download it or buy a CD-ROM with a guidebook ...

AMD has seen a 69% decline in its gaming division and hasn't made nearly as many gains in the AI chip sector as rival US chip ...