My girlfriend has an old PB laptop (Athlon XP Mobile 2200+ vintage) with a broken (physically snapped off!) CD ROM drive. Windows XP (original install, 4+ years old) finally gave up the ghost. in ...

Running a virtual CD-ROM emulator allows you to copy CDs to your hard drive and avoid the risk of scratches to your physical media. Computer hard drives can also read the information more quickly ...

The major difference is the CD-ROM drive and a cartridge with 256KB of RAM, likely used to store data being loaded from the optical discs.

Toshiba America introduced two 12X CD-ROM drives, the XM-5701B SCSI and the XM-5702B ATAPI. Both feature sustained data transfer rates of 1,800 kbps. Suggested list prices for the XM-5701B SCSI ...

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 ...

His use of a 3-phase motor from a CD-ROM drive as the generator isn’t particularly unexpected, these motors are ubiquitous and readily generate power when spun up.

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The company said that CD-ROM drives based on hardware from South Korean electronics manufacturer LG become inoperable when used with Mandrake Linux 9.2.

The CD-ROM drive, the prototype’s distinguishing feature, didn’t work. Well, thanks to master modder/hacker Ben Heckendorn, that has been fixed.

The prototype features a slot for Super Famicom and Super Nintendo games and a CD-ROM drive which was meant to play discs.