A CD-ROM drive can be used as a stand-alone unit for playing digital audio CDs without interfacing with a computer. The stereo output of CD player available at the audio jack can be amplified using ...

You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar ...

ok, I got a Sony VAIO SR laptop(the kind without a floppy or CD drive built in) <P>I'm a pretty big fan of roller coaster tycoon, star craft and UT. Unfortunately all of them ask for the install CD ...

Recently I had a conversation with a coworker who asked me about CD-ROM drives. They purchased a new PC a year or so ago and it does not have an optical drive. This wasn’t a problem until they came ...

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 ...

it'll wear out just as fast as a cdrom drive will. there are different lasers for reading and writing (I'm 75% sure on this one) <BR><BR>oh, and pc world has not been a good source for about the last ...

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 ...