Although the company eventually released a PC with a CD-ROM drive in 1991, the Commodore 64’s heyday was long before CD-ROMs became popular.But that didn’t stop Rainbow Arts from releasing a ...

Although the SuperStation One lacks a CD-ROM drive and doesn't ship with any copyrighted material, games, or software, users can load "backups" of PS1 games and ROMs via the microSD slot or USB drive.

OEMs now deal with severe cost restrictions in order to produce sub-$500 PCs, he said, so if the new drives are too costly the OEMs may bypass them in favor of 32x CD-ROM drives that cost just $30.

Step back to the early CD-ROM era, though, and things were a little kookier. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, drives hit the market that required the use of a bulky plastic caddy to load discs.

The Hitachi system that will eventually take the place of the floppy disk-powered mechanism is said to ... But the advent of CD-ROM, USB drives and improved hard disk capabilities marked the ...

Many of today's sleek computer models don't have a CD-ROM drive at all. Even if you're installing an existing printer on a new computer but you no longer have the CD-ROM, don't worry. You can ...

Early CD-ROM drives needed CD caddies to work properly. They looked like a large floppy disk with a CD inside. "This Old Tech" is an ongoing series about technologies of the past that had an impact.

Although the tool includes an option to create a disc to boot your device to restore a backup, newer devices no longer come with disc drives. If you don't have a CD-ROM drive, you'll need to use ...

high-resolution active-matrix display, a built-in CD-ROM drive, a 3.2GB hard disk drive ... Retina display, a redesigned butterfly mechanism keyboard and a Force Touch trackpad.