Being an early adopter is great if you enjoy showing off new gadgets to your friends. But any new technology also brings the risk of ending up at the wrong side of a format war: just ask anyone who ...
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 ...
How would one figure out, at which speed would his/her CD ROM drive saturate the IDE bus/speed of their current system?<BR><BR>I THINK...<BR>1x = 150 KBps<BR>2x = 300 KBps etc...<BR><BR>so i would ...
Some CD-ROM drives made by LG Electronics contain a flaw that makes them inoperable when used with MandrakeSoft's version of the Linux operating system, MandrakeSoft said. The drives in question ...
I have an external BD ROM drive that had a slight water spill. Yikes! It was an Asus external drive, the enclosure broke prior to this incident, and then I pulled the drive (laptop form factor) and ...
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 and the XM-5702B ATAPI ...
Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support all the DVD and CD formats. The speeds of the drives are rated by their DVD-ROM and CD-ROM transfer rates. The original DVD drive (1x) ...
CD-ROM drives will account for 42% of the estimated 188 million worldwide shipments of computer drives this year, followed by 30% for CD-RW drives and 19% for DVD-ROM drives, according to the ...
Apple has finally started putting internal CD-RW drives in its new systems, but that’s of little comfort to those who own earlier Macs. If you long for the unlimited capacity, quick file sharing, and ...
The popularity of Apple’s new iBook model featuring a combination CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive has caused the company to rethink its retail marketing strategy — a move Apple confirmed today in a conversation ...
The 1541 Disk Drive Computer project boots a Commodore 1541 like a KIM-1, letting you run Tiny BASIC and machine code over ...