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Topic: CD ROM drive

Related:
  Rom    Drive  
  CD    CD RW drive  
  Free CD ROM    DVD ROM drive  
  CD ROM Business Cards    External CD ROM  
  CD ROM driver    CD ROM duplication  
  CD ROM Replication    Virtual CD ROM  

 
 
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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite body part(s):Ears
Favorite activity(s):Karaoke
Most admires:Steve Jobs,  Bill Gates
Favorite possession(s):Windows computer,  Apple Computer,  Linux box
Favorite book(s):"Maximum Internet Security: A Hackers Guide" by Net Sams
Interest(s):Computers
Currently has on their coffee table:Mac Today,  PC World
Favorite computer game(s):X-Wing,  Myst,  PacMan
Favorite online activity(s):Downloading MP3's,  Chatting on ICQ,  Finding warez
Favorite quote(s):"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
 
 
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Mike Enlow,
Internet Marketer

Some CD-ROM drives may put a click a few seconds into the first track being extracted.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

With most CD-ROM drives that support digital audio extraction, you can get jitter-free audio by using a program that extracts the entire track all at once.
Rob Verdann,
Afterdark Removalist

DVD ROM drives can play the same discs as a DVD player, but has the added benefit of being able to play also CDs etc.
The CD-ROMs you produce will play in ordinary CD-ROM drives, and the audio CDs you create will work in your home or car CD player.
Interesting are the combination drives of cd-rom player, recorder/writer and DVD player in one.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

The CD-ROM tower or rack drawer is a bunch of SCSI or IDE CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drives connected to a computer or network.
Many vendors ship systems with IDE CD-ROM drives due to their consideration of reducing cost as well as their selection of non-bootable thus lower cost SCSI controller.
EXTERNAL CD_ROM DRIVES These can either connect through the parallel port or PCMCIA slot and allow download of software on CD for laptops without built-in CD-ROM.
 
 
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