My girlfriend has an old PB laptop (Athlon XP Mobile 2200+ vintage) with a broken (physically snapped off!) CD ROM drive. Windows XP (original install, 4+ years old) finally gave up the ghost. in ...

A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there, instead the ...

A device that holds and reads CD-ROM discs. Modern CD-ROM drives also play audio CDs. See CD-ROM and CD-ROM drives. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission ...

A CD-ROM drive that holds a small number of CD-ROMs for individual use on a desktop computer. Although it can swap discs, it typically contains only one drive and can only read one at a time. See ...

How would one figure out, at which speed would his/her CD ROM drive saturate the IDE bus/speed of their current system?<BR><BR>I THINK...<BR>1x = 150 KBps<BR>2x = 300 KBps etc...<BR><BR>so i would ...

The project explains the mounting of a VU meter into an old CD-ROM drive case and be installed into the PC. The VU meters are based on VFD displays which are much cooler than LED or LCD displays. The ...

If you have a newer iBook and you’d like to upgrade your optical drive to one that can watch DVD-ROMs and burn CD-RWs, you’re in luck: Mac upgrade and peripheral maker MCE Technologies LLC is now ...

What do you get when you combine an ESP32, a 16-bit DAC, an antique VFD, and an IDE CD-ROM drive? Not much, unless you put in the work, which [Akasaka Ryuunosuke] did to create ESPer-CDP, a modern ...

Photographers looking to build their very own macro photography studio may be interested in a project featured on the Instructables website which uses an old CD ROM drive as the platform to create an ...

Storage product maker LaCie has announced a diminutive DVD-ROM drive designed to be portable enough to fit in the palm of your hand. The drive features both FireWire and USB support. The PocketDVD-ROM ...