His use of a 3-phase motor from a CD-ROM drive as the generator isn’t particularly unexpected, these motors are ubiquitous and readily generate power when spun up. A simple 3-phase rectifier and ...

A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there ...

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.

ZuluIDE™ is a hardware interface between IDE bus and SD cards. Currently it supports emulating ATAPI CD-ROM drives, Zip Drive 100, and a generic removable drive by providing access to image files ...

At this time, it seemed that Bruce Tognozzini’s (of Tog on Interface fame) wish that OPEN LOOK "be towed out to sea and given a decent burial" had come true, and so I abandoned sales and put the ...

Rosetta Stone discontinued its CD-ROM and digital download products in ... Upgrading your RAM, storage drives, and processor can significantly boost performance. Just think: No more spinning ...

This problem has a simple fix, just update the driver. To do that, expand DVD/CD-ROM drives, right-click on the DVD writer, and select Update driver. Select “Search Automatically for updated ...

But as originally specified, one CD-ROM could store 550 MB of data, a mind-melting capacity in the mid-1980s, when even a 20 ...

The Polaris Dawn crew safely returned to Earth Sunday morning.. The Dragon capsule carrying the mission’s four astronauts — ...

The speeds of the drives are rated by their DVD-ROM and CD-ROM transfer rates. The original DVD drive (1x) transferred data at 1.39MB per second, sufficient for movies. By doubling the spindle ...

However, one of the first databases to come out on CD-ROM was InfoTrac in 1985 ... Encarta was discontinued in 2009. Early CD-ROM drives needed CD caddies to work properly. They looked like a large ...

If you are experiencing a problem with your software, please click on the relevant error message from the options below, for instructions. If you encounter this error ...