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How to play old CD-ROM games on Windows again

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 ...
CNET

Combo DVD/CD-RW drives flourish

Do combo movie-watching and music-recording drives have the write stuff? Apparently PC manufacturers think so. After a slow start, combination CD-rewritable and DVD drives are showing up in computers ...
The Washington Post

CD-RW Drives Harder to Choose but Easier to Use

The 1.44-megabyte floppy-disk drive is an endangered species largely because its primary predator, the CD-rewritable drive, uses media that can store up to 700MB per disk and costs only about $100. CD ...
Ars Technica

Do I really need the Compaq SmartStart CD???

I inherited a Compaq 1850R (dual 600 MHz processors) with a couple of drives not set up in a RAID configuration. I'd like to wipe the OS (Windows 2000 Server) from the drive, repartition it and start ...
Hackaday

Why Did Early CD-ROM Drives Rely On Awkward Plastic Caddies?

These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has been the ...