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 ...

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 ...

ok, I got a Sony VAIO SR laptop(the kind without a floppy or CD drive built in) <P>I'm a pretty big fan of roller coaster tycoon, star craft and UT. Unfortunately all of them ask for the install CD ...

IE only audio discs, but yea, just plug in headphones and go. I have to use it as Im too lazy to plug the audio out cable from my drive to the soundcard ...

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 ...

Recently I had a conversation with a coworker who asked me about CD-ROM drives. They purchased a new PC a year or so ago and it does not have an optical drive. This wasn’t a problem until they came ...

Apple has finally started putting internal CD-RW drives in its new systems, but that’s of little comfort to those who own earlier Macs. If you long for the unlimited capacity, quick file sharing, and ...

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support all the DVD and CD formats. The speeds of the drives are rated by their DVD-ROM and CD-ROM transfer rates. The original DVD drive (1x) ...

The dramatic announcement from Microsoft and Wang last year -- that anyone who purchased a copy of Windows 95 would receive a free image viewer -- led many to believe inexpensive imaging would soon be ...

PlayStation 5 (PS5) game console, equipped with a disc drive, has a built-in Ultra HD Blu-ray drive, but it cannot directly play music CDs. It also does not support external CD-ROM drives connected ...