ANSWER: Most new computers come standard with a CD-ROM or DVD, but this reader has an older, Windows95-equipped system. Installing an internal CD-ROM isn’t a job for the faint of heart. This job would ...

[Gio] sent in this slick Class A headphone amp. An old CD-ROM case was gutted to hold the goods. The design is fairly simple. Cost can be kept fairly low although the capacitors can add up if you’re a ...

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 ...

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.

Just as audio compact disks have banished vinyl phonograph albums to the nostalgia bins, compact disks for computers may soon reduce the role of the familiar floppy disk. After several years of slow ...

VicTsing's Portable External CD-RW / DVD-R Combo Drive is now on sale at Amazon for only $9.99 when you enter promo code 4I3HL6B6 at checkout. That discount saves you $9 off its regular price. You can ...

I have been given an external CD-ROM drive.<P>The back of the cd-rom has two ports. One is the standard audio Left and audio Right plugs.<P>The interface plug/port for this CD-ROM looks *exactly* like ...

Looks like you're going to have to replace the ODD in order to get it to boot. I did some searching around, and was unable to find a way to boot this model from a USB device. It appears to be a BIOS ...

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 ...

This CD player offered a glimpse of Apple's post-desktop game plan. Photo: Jonathan Zufi March 22, 1993: Apple launches the PowerCD, the first device from the company that doesn’t require a computer ...