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 ...

October 19, 1992: Apple launches the Mac IIvx, the first Macintosh computer to ship with a metal case and, more importantly, an internal CD-ROM drive. The last of the Macintosh II series, the Mac IIvx ...

CD-ROM emulation on the PicoGUS emulates a Panasonic/MKE interface and drive and supports CD images in ISO or BIN/CUE stored on a USB drive plugged into the USB port on the PicoGUS. CD-ROM emulation ...

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 ...

Although the company eventually released a PC with a CD-ROM drive in 1991, the Commodore 64’s heyday was long before CD-ROMs became popular. But that didn’t stop Rainbow Arts from releasing a ...

Perhaps it's a trick of memory, but it seems like old media formats simply evaporate once we move on to the next big thing. The recording industry sold 4.4 billion dollars worth of 8-track tapes in ...

These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has been the ...

Abstract This paper describes the packet vault, a cryptographically secured archiver of network packet data. The vault captures network packets, encrypts them, and writes them to long-term CD-ROM ...

ROME, N.Y. -- Today marks National CD Player Day, and an interesting fact is that the inventor of CD-ROM technology was from Rome. John Dove was born on June 4, 1924, in North Carolina. After serving ...

Brother printers are common in both work and home offices. While the printer out of the box comes with everything you need to install the printer's driver on your computer, not everyone can use the CD ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. For students attending a university in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the experience was vastly different ...