Everything fails eventually, but moving parts fail fastest of all– and optical drives seemingly more than others, at least in our experience. Even when they work, vintage drives often have trouble ...
Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...
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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 ...
In the innocent days of the early 90s the future of personal computing still seemed to be wide open, with pundits making various statements regarding tis potential trajectories. To many, the internet ...
At the time, it was the CD-ROM that had captured the imagination of consumers and the entire publishing industry. The high-capacity optical discs enabled mass distribution of multimedia for the first ...
It is often convenient to spin CDs at a speed that is less than the optimal spindle speed that the CD-ROM drive allows. For example, in portable computers, CD-ROM drives that spin at high speed drain ...
Microsoft Corp. has started taking orders for the Windows Security Update CD, a disc with all critical updates released through October 2003 for various Windows versions. The CD-ROM is meant ...
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