The husband-and-wife team of Jonathan and Laurie Davis is stepping into the future of publishing by taking a stroll through the past. Their first product: a computer-read multimedia CD about American ...

QUESTION: My computer does not recognize my CD drive. It stopped doing this so I thought the CD player was just shot. I put in a new one and got the same result. I switched IDE cables, same result.

Merchandising representatives at computer stores are struggling to keep pace with the hottest accessory for computers: CD-ROM. That stands for compact disc-read only memory. They are similar to the ...

Retro gaming has made a comeback with systems like the NES Classic, but none of them will do you any good if you have a stockpile of game CDs from yesteryear that you want to play. What might, however ...

This article describes how to set up a virtual CD-ROM jukebox (VCDJ) using Samba and Linux. A VCDJ is a network server that provides access to the contents of a large number of CD-ROM disks, without ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. For students attending a university in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the experience was vastly different ...

1993: Broderbund Software releases Myst, a game for the Macintosh computer that becomes a record-setting best-seller and the killer app that sparks sales of CD-ROM drives. Brothers Rand and Robyn ...

I'm just wondering if anyone knows enough about game console architecture to tell me whether getting a CD-ROM that is built-in to a video game system such as those mentioned to function as a computer ...

On October 1, 1982, Sony ignited a digital audio revolution with the release of the world’s first commercial compact disc player, the CDP-101 (above), in Japan. It signaled the dawn of a new audio ...

The computer CD-ROM company had never had such valuable parts of rock history in its hands. It was nerve-wracking – so much so that everything was locked in a vault under tight security. If that weren ...