Hardly, but I am pumped up about CD-ROMs, the computer technology that puts vast arrays of knowledge at our fingertips.The CD in CD-ROM stands for compact […] Skip to content All Sections ...

These days, utilities that require a separate startup disk (such as disk repair utilities) are shipping with a startup CD-ROM disc, rather than the traditional startup floppy disk. Given that ...

Acacia Research’s Web site. It would seem that both Disc Link and TechSearch are essentially fronts for Acacia. This isn’t even the first suit Disc Link has filed in relation to this patent. Back in ...

There must have been a time back in the 1400s when people pointed out that although Johann Gutenberg’s impressive new movable-type technology was available, there wasn’t much demand for… ...

If you have a full, 750MB Zip drive or multiple, smaller Zip drives you want to write to a CD-ROM disk, try compressing the files first and then writing the smaller, zipped archive to the CD instead.

Step back to the early CD-ROM era, though, and things were a little kookier. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, drives hit the market that required the use of a bulky plastic caddy to load discs.

Suspicions were confirmed when Sony unveiled its own similar console in 1991 dubbed the "Play Station" and Nintendo said it was working with Philips to develop a CD-ROM drive for the Super NES.

FWB Software Inc. announced on Monday plans to sell the complete source code for its Hard Disk ToolKit, CD-ROM ToolKit and DriveUp! 98. The company is hoping to sell the intellectual property to ...

[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 … ...