A direct access storage device that is written and read by light. The most common types are CD, DVD and Blu-ray. As removable media, optical discs superseded the earlier magnetic disk cartridges ...
The photo captured nearly 30 years ago shows the tech billionaire holding a newly invented storage device - Compact Disc-Read Only Memory (CD-ROM). "Thirty years ago, we wanted to show just how ...
which have a built-in digital-to-analogue converter (DAC), and CD transports, which can only read the data on the disc and require an external DAC to work. Some models combine CD and streaming, so you ...