I read something in PC World that said that I should not use my CD-RW drive all the time as a replacment for a normal CD-ROM drive. Is this true? Or can I replace my CD-ROM drive with a CD-RW drive ...

At the time, it was the CD-ROM that had captured the imagination of consumers and the entire publishing industry. The high-capacity optical discs enabled mass distribution of multimedia for the first ...

Sometimes in the never-ending progression of technology, people take wrong turns. They pursue dead-ends they believe represent a bright future, often in spite of obvious indications to the contrary.

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.

I?ve been around PC hardware for quite a while and have used just about every ?speed? CD-ROM since my trusty ol? Creative Labs 1X. Having used all these different drives I?ve learned a couple things: ...

Although the company eventually released a PC with a CD-ROM drive in 1991, the Commodore 64’s heyday was long before CD-ROMs became popular. But that didn’t stop Rainbow Arts from releasing a ...