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What Is ROM? How Read-Only-Memory Works in Computers
ROM chips, on the other hand, are nonvolatile, meaning they retain their data even when you power down. Hard drives store data magnetically, and you can write over them multiple times. Unlike a ...
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20 Rom Hacks That Make It Hard To Go Back To The Original Game
Rom hacks help make older games accessible, but sometimes they get so good that they actually outshine the games they're ...
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CD-ROM drives
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.
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A Network Adapter Thinks It’s A CD-ROM. Restore Its True Calling!
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 ...
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CD-ROM audio cable
A cable used to send audio CD sound to the computer's sound card. When playing audio CDs, CD-ROM drives output analog sound to both a headphone jack and external connector just like a CD player.
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An Arduino And A CD-ROM Drive Makes A CD Player
It’s something [Daniel1111] has done with his Arduino CD player, which uses the little microcontroller board to control a CD-ROM drive via its IDE bus.