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The acronym CD-ROM, stands for Compact Disk Read Only Memory, and these curious little devices are pretty much seen everywhere today. The CD-ROM was invented in 1984 by Philips and Sony, and was first used to write access amounts of information to a single disk;
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faculty.colostate-pueblo.edu/samuel.ebersole/336/eim/5m...
faculty.colostate-pueblo.edu/samuel.ebersole/336/eim/5min/cdrom.htm
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This concept more or less morphed into what is now known as DVD (Digital Video Drives,) a technology produced primarily by Sony, Phillips and Toshiba. While not compatible with the standard CD-ROM drives used in computers, it did achieve what the White Book had outlined for the future.
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micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/computers/compactdiscs/...
micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/computers/compactdiscs/cd.html
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Compact Disc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Compact Disc (also known as a CD ) is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store sound recordings exclusively, but later it also allowed the preservation of...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc
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Tandy introduces its low-cost CDR-1000 CD-ROM drive for PCs. At US$400, including drive and controller card, it is about half the price of other drives.
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www.fortunecity.com/marina/reach/435/storage.html
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Have you ever wondered what U.S. Naval Intelligence and Military Intelligence knew about the ships, planes, and armored vehicles of the enemy, neutral, and allied forces during World War II? ... Now you can own copies of these important historical manuals in an easy to use and store format on CD-ROM.
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www.history-on-cdrom.com/
www.history-on-cdrom.com/
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This collection of articles on the history of CD-ROM and CD-Recordable is heavily technical, ... This is another page about audio CDs. It has links to some shareware for DOS, Windows amd Linux for testing various CD-ROM drives' ability to read "raw" audio discs, and asks users to report results using the survey form in...
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www.cd-info.com/CDIC/Bibliography.html
www.cd-info.com/CDIC/Bibliography.html
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PC Guide's CD-ROM reference; Extensive coverage of CD-ROM drives and technology. Describes how the CD-ROM drive works. Covers CD media and the different formats, CD-recordable and CD-rewriteable technology, performance and reliability, and interface and configuration issues.
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www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/CD_ROM.html
www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/CD_ROM.html
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The resources in this CD-ROM may be used alongside and compared to those in any other CD in the PictureBase series because PictureBase CDs are designed so that the index of each CD integrates with all the others in the series so that you can build up an extensive multimedia database of your choice.
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www.filmo.com/avphist.htm
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A directory of wonderful things. ... In 2003, Ceri Coburn (to whom first4internet.com is registered) appeared as a novice programmer in a technical mailing list, asking questions about how to cripple CD drives.
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boingboing.net/2005/11/27/prehistory_of_the_so.html
boingboing.net/2005/11/27/prehistory_of_the_so.html
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