SAN FRANCISCO — Sony Corp., which late last year began selling the first hand-held CD-ROM player, plans to release a second, more powerful device in the United States this fall that will play more ...

A CD-ROM drive can be used as a stand-alone unit for playing digital audio CDs without interfacing with a computer. The stereo output of CD player available at the audio jack can be amplified using ...

Yesterday`s high-technology is today`s ho-hum. Three years ago, sealed aluminum platters called ”hard disks” for microcomputers were really high tech. With a 10 megabyte hard disk, the equivalent of 4 ...

On October 1, 1982, Sony ignited a digital audio revolution with the release of the world’s first commercial compact disc player, the CDP-101 (above), in Japan. It signaled the dawn of a new audio ...

I can’t remember the last time I played music on a spinning compact disc. It’s been the better part of 20 years since I spent countless hours ripping CDs into a bloated MP3 collection, trying to call ...

I never thought I`d be able to lift an entire set of encyclopedias with only my little finger, but I recently did just that. Have I been pumping iron? Hardly, but I am pumped up about CD-ROMs, the ...

CD-ROM, a technology that used to be as exciting as a 10,000-page statistical data base, is trying to enter the consumer and education markets on the coattails of its flashier cousin, the audio ...

Replay: The battlefields of the audio visual world are littered with the corpses of dead formats, none more so than the fight to put moving images on to discs. With the exception of LaserDisc, none of ...

What is a compact disc (CD)? A Compact Disc (CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data. CD-ROMs and CD-Rs remain widely used technologies in the computer industry.CD-ROM drives employ a ...

But, if I go into explorer and click on my CD-ROM... all the tracks show up as 1kb in size, so there is a problem somewhere.<P>Something strange is that the windows media player won't play audio CD, ...

System requirements: PC XT/AT or compatible computer; 640K bytes RAM; 1 floppy disk drive; 10MB hard disk; monitor; CD-ROM player with interface card and cable; MS-DOS 3.21 or higher; Microsoft MS-DOS ...

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