Why doesn’t the CD-ROM work on your new computer? The old system requires ... Upgrading your RAM, storage drives, and processor can significantly boost performance. Just think: No more spinning ...

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.

(2) A small solid state storage module that plugs into the computer's USB port ... speed may be an issue. When USB drives first arrived, vendors used CD-ROM ratings whereby each "x" equaled ...

Optical drives were once so common that virtually every computer came with one ... in 1979 to play back music but was adapted into the CD-ROM format in 1985, capable of storing 700MB of data ...

As Linda Jacobson, an editor at Computer Life magazine ... (Encarta made it all the way to a 2009 edition.) For years, CD-ROM ...

If, on the other hand, you were among the few who invested in CD-ROM when it was first released ... for the interface that hooks up the CD drive to your computer, as [Tech Tangents] found out ...

but [Chris] also has another way of doing just that which is undefeatable by a TEMPEST shielded computer. He can send one bit at a time by opening and closing a CD-ROM drive, capturing these bits ...

To do that, expand DVD/CD-ROM drives, right-click on the DVD writer, and select Update driver. Select “Search Automatically for updated driver software” if you want your computer to search the ...

Optical drive. It's pretty hard to find a computer without a CD-ROM drive these days. In fact, it's hard to find one without a rewritable CD. But time marches on, and today it's preferable to have ...

Alden Library at Ohio University is credited with creating the first electronic bibliographic record in 1971 into what is now known as the Online Computer Library Center ... Encarta was discontinued ...

A sneak peek at the re-released 'Backyard Sports' classic computer game that will be available for fans to play on Thursday.