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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]
CD-ROM XViewer
Downloads "CD-ROM XViewer" is a pretty nice freeware made by Eventi Progetti Speciali, who has been developing CdRoms in Director using Macintosh for years, and is quite depressed because so many products showing the "Made with Macromedia" logo are actually...
[January 9, 2003, 7:00]
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]
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]
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]
CD-ROM ToolKit Updater
Downloads This software will update the application for your CD-ROM ToolKit version 3.0.1. It fixes an incompatibility that arose with CDT/040 processors when running Mac OS 8. On HFS+ volumes, static disk cache is automatically turned off.
[April 27, 1998, 4:05]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Microsoft CD-ROM Changer Drivers
Downloads The Microsoft Drivers correct problems users may have when working with multiple disc CD-ROM changers in Windows 95. Update your system with these protected-mode CD-ROM changer drivers. File date 7/96.
[January 22, 1997, 0:15]
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]
NEC CD-ROM Drivers
Downloads DOS installation disk for the MultiSpin 4V, 6V and 8V IDE CD-ROM readers
[September 22, 2000, 8:00]
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]
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]
