Enter the CD-ROM, which since its introduction in 1985 had brought the tantalizing feature of seemingly near-infinite storage within reach, and became cheap enough for many in the early 90s.

CD-ROM drives have dropped below $200 and have now become a standard drive on any new PC. CD-Recordable (CD-R) drives, which record data and images to CD discs, have dropped below $1,000 and some ...

I know its not good to put the CD-Rom and Burner on the same IDE controller because of buffer over and under runs. I have a old Promise 66 controller card , can I put the CD-Rom and Burner on this ...

Long live CD-ROM It’s now possible to play early ’90s CD-ROM games via ScummVM Easily play Windows 3.1 CD games in a Windows 10 environment.

Disney, which had such success selling the Lion King CD-ROM, discovered painfully that it was another thing to make it work. The venom set in on Dec. 26 and built as days and weeks went by and ...

Virtual CD-ROM emulators function by being able to read the image file of a CD. An image file is a byte-for-byte copy of a disc's information, according to FILExt.

A YouTube channel dedicated to old Top Gear content recently posted this video, showing off an Interactive CD-ROM from Top Gear magazine, from the late ’90s and I can’t help but smile watching it.

[Kyle] wanted to try something new. A Persistence of Vision Clock using a CD-ROM drive. We have covered lots of POV Clocks that make use of hard drives, but we think this is the first time we have … ...

By the mid-1990s, most CD-ROM drives could pass the digital data over the computer's bus (see digital audio extraction). PCs today use a standard four-pin cable; however, earlier cards and drives ...

1993: Broderbund Software releases Myst, a game for the Macintosh computer that becomes a record-setting best-seller and the killer app that sparks sales of CD-ROM drives. Brothers Rand and Robyn ...

A quick bit of news for you: that super rare Nintendo PlayStation Super NES CD-ROM Prototype has sold at auction for over $300,000. The opening bid was set for $31,000 and the auction ended on ...