QUESTION: Install a replacement CD-ROM drive or put a new CD Burner in my computer? I was not sure what was the wise move for me, because the other CD-ROM drive in my computer is not working right ...

QUESTION: My computer does not recognize my CD drive. It stopped doing this so I thought the CD player was just shot. I put in a new one and got the same result. I switched IDE cables, same result.

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 ...

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. This ...

The husband-and-wife team of Jonathan and Laurie Davis is stepping into the future of publishing by taking a stroll through the past. Their first product: a computer-read multimedia CD about American ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. For students attending a university in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the experience was vastly different ...

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 ...

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'm just wondering if anyone knows enough about game console architecture to tell me whether getting a CD-ROM that is built-in to a video game system such as those mentioned to function as a computer ...

Looking back, it's hard to believe that we started off with stamp-sized videos and horribly pixelated 15s "multimedia" segments shoehorned into whatever version of Encarta or the Encyclopedia ...