Q. Before I buy a CD-ROM drive, I’m waiting for a recordable version. Why is it taking so long for a recordable CD-ROM disk to become available? A. You’re missing the point of what CD-ROM is all about ...

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 ...

It wasn’t long ago that techno-pundits were ready to bury the CD-ROM. The Internet, with its 24-hour-a-day worldwide access, would all but replace the CD-ROM as the medium of the digital age, the ...

Computer lingo is loaded with letters, numbers and acronyms, but five stand out above the rest: CD-ROM. An acronym known only among aficionados as recently as five years ago, it is now so universal ...

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CD-Audio and CD-ROM were established in the early 1980s as the "new thing" to replace the venerable analog long-playing record. This digital format was very quickly accepted as the standard because it ...