It’s a pity there aren’t more good science CD-ROMs. These information warehouses, with their huge storage capacity for text, pictures, and software, offer virtually unlimited multimedia possibilities- ...

Yesterday`s high-technology is today`s ho-hum. Three years ago, sealed aluminum platters called ”hard disks” for microcomputers were really high tech. With a 10 megabyte hard disk, the equivalent of 4 ...

Multimedia CD-ROMs can offer an effective and useful method of supporting continuing professional development. The fact that not all members of the dental team may have access to a posted resource ...

Believe it or not, back in the 1990s, a lot of people thought CD-ROMs were going to the change the world. We were wrong, of course, and with the rise of the World Wide Web, most people have now long ...

Replay: The battlefields of the audio visual world are littered with the corpses of dead formats, none more so than the fight to put moving images on to discs. With the exception of LaserDisc, none of ...

In 1994, multimedia discs—from encyclopedias to magazines—flooded the market, and felt like the future. It was fun while it lasted. At the time, it was the CD-ROM that had captured the imagination of ...

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 ...

This article describes how to set up a virtual CD-ROM jukebox (VCDJ) using Samba and Linux. A VCDJ is a network server that provides access to the contents of a large number of CD-ROM disks, without ...