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CD-ROM Mac PowerBooks to ship November
News The four-strong range includes the first units to come with integral CD-ROM drives. The notebooks use 117MHz and 133MHz PowerPC 603e processors, matched with 12Mb or 16Mb RAM, 750Mb or 1Gb hard drives, 11.3-inch dual-scan or active-matrix screens...
[October 22, 1996, 15:29]
Comdex Fall, Las Vegas: CD-ROM drive boffins spin out top-speed models
News DVD drives may have been grabbing most of the Comdex spotlight in Las Vegas this week but the humble CD-ROM drive continues to rattle along at breakneck speeds. Notebook users will also feel the benefit of faster CD-ROM performance with LG showing...
[November 20, 1996, 10:39]
A Year Ago: CD-ROM speeds just keep getting faster
News Barely a week goes by without a new CD-ROM speed being announced. Electronics has announced a 16-speed CD-ROM drive expected to ship before the end of the year. Toshiba has just released details of its 15-speed drive and Korea's L.G.
[November 19, 1997, 9:06]
Five years ago: CD-ROM speeds just keep getting faster
News Electronics has announced a 16x CD-ROM drive expected to ship before the end of the year. Toshiba has just released details of its 15x drive and Korea's L.G. Toshiba has announced 10x and 12x drives in the last few months and this new drive has a...
[November 16, 2001, 6:00]
Creative pulls out of bloody CD-ROM drive battle
News The CD-ROM drive battlefield has claimed a big casualty with the news that Singapore giant Creative Labs.is pulling out of the market. Additionally, inventoried product will strike out a further $20m for Creative, relating to eight-speed CD-ROM...
[July 11, 1996, 16:28]
Response of the Week: faulty CD-ROM 'x' rates
News "I have just installed my brand-new 16x Goldstar Model CRD-8160B CD-ROM drive. On my tests, taking 543Mb of data and transferring it to hard drive from CD took 13 minutes. Doing my maths that was 69kb/sec - sad for a CD drive that is rated at "16X...
[January 24, 1997, 11:52]
Mandrake Linux 9.2 'kills' some CD-ROM drives
News MandrakeSoft is warning its users that the latest release of its operating system, released earlier this month, could permanently disable some CD-ROM drives. The company said that CD-ROM drives based on hardware from South Korean electronics...
[October 29, 2003, 13:35]
Mandrake Linux 9.2 'kills' some CD-ROM drives
Talkback Their el-cheapo CD-ROM drives deserve to be fried for not following a standardised specification which other manufacturers appear to be able to understand. This is not an embaressment to Mandrake this is LGs fault and all the egg should be all over...
[October 29, 2003, 19:54]
Paragon CD-ROM Emulator (Personal)
Downloads If so, then Paragon CD-ROM Emulator will help to reduce the clutter. With CD-ROM Emulator you will boost the performance of your applications that frequently access a CD or DVD. In just a couple of mouse clicks, the Emulator Manager can add a...
[February 8, 2006, 11:14]
JVC creates 'uncopyable' CD-ROM
News Consumer electronics maker JVC and games developer Hudson Soft have developed a new copy-protection technology that they claim will prevent CD-ROM discs from being copied, the companies said on Wednesday.
[August 29, 2002, 15:46]
Plasmon jukeboxes support CD-ROM, CD-R, PD disks
News The D-Series libraries support CD-ROM, CD-Recordable and PD (CD-ROM, magneto-optical hybrid) disks in a choice of 120-, 240- and 480-disk models. Plasmon today announced a new range of CD Library jukeboxes supporting a wide range of media types.
[February 24, 1997, 14:35]
Paragon CD-ROM Emulator (Personal)
Downloads If so, then Paragon CD-ROM Emulator will help to reduce the clutter. With CD-ROM Emulator you will boost the performance of your applications that frequently access a CD or DVD, because hard drives are much faster.
[January 12, 2006, 7:00]
Bell tolls for CD-ROM: Report
News By the year 2002, 78% of all software units shipped will be in DVD-ROM format with the remaining 22% on CD-ROMs. Sales of DVD-ROM, say Datamonitor, are expected to rise from 18m units in 1997 to 71m in the year 2002, an increase of 53m units over...
[August 28, 1998, 10:21]
CD-ROM makers still chasing speed
News TEAC is not the first maker to release a 32-speed drive but many observers have long suggested that the rush to such faster and faster claims is merely the prelude to the eclipse of CD-ROM by DVD-ROM.
[January 21, 1998, 15:45]
Plextor drives out 12x CD-ROM for September
News Despite widespread reports of fast spin rates on CD-ROM drives providing negligible overall performance hikes, the company claims that 12-speed drives will be a boon for some users. De Jongh also disputed forecasts that suggest the imminent...
[August 27, 1996, 16:26]
Sony makes £115 8x CD-ROM debut
News Sony has built this drive from scratch using specially designed eight-speed components, rather than using parts from slower CD-ROM drives," said Neil Berville, sales and marketing manager at Sony Computer Peripherals.
[July 18, 1996, 17:00]
Mitsumi 12x CD-ROM drives all set
News The internal IDE drives will support up to 1,800Kbps transfer rates and ship with a 256Kb memory buffer. Street pricing will be between £110 and £120 + VAT. Nick Shenton, UK sales manager at Mitsumi, said he expected 12x drive sales to take off in...
[September 9, 1996, 16:46]
Hitachi spins out CD-ROM, DVD drives
News Hitachi will market the product as the 12X Partial CAV Mode CD-ROM drive, reflecting the optimum speed for most operations. Hitachi will continue to produce eight-speed CD-ROM drives until demand dries in mid-1997; mass produce 12-speed CD-ROM...
[September 20, 1996, 15:56]
Mesh to add 24-speed CD-ROM drives to PCs
News Mesh believes the TEAC drive is the fastest EIDE drive on the market, delivering an access time of 103ms and maintaining a constant data transfer rate. The theoretical maximum data transfer rate of a 24-speed drive is 3,600kbps.
[May 1, 1997, 15:39]
Piracy Focus: Music to CD-ROM - no problem
News The difference is a wobble which makes some audio CDs stall on many PC CD-ROM drives. But the wobble has failed and contrary to Sony and Phillips' plans copyright music can be successfully copied to a CD-ROM and enjoyed on either a computer or a...
[June 16, 1998, 16:40]
