Five Years Ago: IBM Plans First USB PC For October
News The system will also feature dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs) up to 512Mb, choice of S3 Trio 64V+ or Matrox Millennium graphics and choice of PD CD-ROM/rewriteable magneto-optical drive or standard CD-ROM drive.
[August 1, 2001, 8:00]
Intel Revs 433MHz, 466MHz Mobile Chips
News Along with supporting the new 433MHz Celeron chip, the Solo model includes a CD-Rewriteable drive and an Imation Super Disk drive. Gateway lays claim to being one of the first notebook vendors to ship a CD-R drive with one of its systems.
[September 16, 1999, 8:49]
LG Drive Writes To All DVD Formats
News Paul O'Donovan, a principal analyst with Gartner Group, believes DVD-RAM is the weakest of the three DVD rewriteable solutions. LG, which believes that recordable DVD will overtake CD-RW by volume by 2005 and will dominate the market by 2006, says...
[August 8, 2003, 16:45]
PC Makers Rolling Out 800MHz PIIIs
News The system, with its 800MHz chip, 128MB of SDRAM, 27GB hard drive, DVD-ROM drive, CD-Rewriteable drive and 19-inch monitor comes in at a hefty $3,799. With the 800MHz chip, 128MB of SDRAM, a 13GB hard drive and a 40X CD-ROM drive and no monitor, it...
[December 21, 1999, 8:42]
Iomega Chief Throws In Towel
News The popularity of recordable and rewriteable CD-ROMs has seen sales of the company's once cutting edge drives and disks plummet. Jodie Glore, president and chief executive of troubled storage firm Iomega, resigned Thursday following a rocky year...
[August 20, 1999, 16:58]
Cube Fans Pray For Its Reincarnation
News Apple later cut prices and introduced a new model sporting a rewriteable CD drive. The 8-inch, cube-shaped machine, which remained in oversupply throughout its short life, has quickly disappeared from most store shelves since Apple confirmed on...
[July 12, 2001, 12:15]
Five Years Ago: First DVD Drives Mean Business
News In the third or fourth quarter of 1997, rewriteable DVD will sound the death knell for CD-ROM. Hitachi's GD-1000 will be a plug-compatible CD-ROM drive replacement targeted at PC makers and possibly the aftermarket.
[September 2, 2001, 8:00]
DVD Technology Explained
News Rewriteable technology is incredibly complicated," he says. A rewriteable standard like DVD RAM, it looks to be very expensive and the specification for the technology is not yet know. DVD -- or Digital Versatile Disk -- is the storage media of the...
[May 14, 1999, 16:11]
A Year Ago: DVD Technology Explained
News Rewriteable technology is incredibly complicated," he says. A rewriteable standard like DVD RAM, it looks to be very expensive and the specification for the technology is not yet know. DVD players also come in two types: the set-top box linked to...
[May 15, 2000, 7:01]
Quotes Of The Week, September 2-6
News In the third or fourth quarter of 1997, rewriteable DVD will sound the death knell for CD-ROM. CD-ROM is going to continue for another 12-24 months and after that DVD will make very fast inroads into the CD-ROM drive market.
[September 6, 1996, 9:41]
Sony Develops 25GB Paper Disc
News Sony introduced a Blu-ray drive in Japan last year. Although the disc is currently only available as a CD, Sanyo said it is working on a recordable version. Sony and Toppan Printing are making a new mark on Blu-ray disc technology.
[April 16, 2004, 14:25]
