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• CD-ROM

  Pronounced see-dee-rom. Short for Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory, a type of optical disk capable of storing large amounts of data — up to 1GB, although the most common size is 650MB (megabytes). A single CD-ROM has the storage capacity of 700 floppy disks, enough memory to store about 300,000 textpages. CD-ROMs are stamped by the vendor, […]

• CD-ROM/XA

  Short for CD-ROM/eXtended Architecture, a specification developed by Sony, Phillips and Microsoft that enables many different types of data — audio, video, compressed video, and graphics — to be stored on a single CD-ROM.

• CD-ROM player

  Also called a CD-ROM drive, a device that can read information from a CD-ROM. CD-ROM players can be either internal, in which case they fit in a bay, or external, in which case they generally connect to the computer’s SCSI interface or parallel port. Parallel CD-ROM players are easier to install, but they have several […]

• CD-RW

  See CD-RW disk.

• CD-RW Disk

  Short for CD-ReWritable disk, a type of CD disk that enables you to write onto it in multiple sessions. One of the problems with CD-R disks is that you can only write to them once. With CD-RW drives and disks, you can treat the optical disk just like a floppy or hard disk, writing data […]

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