External DVD Drive, Amicool USB 3.0 Type-C CD DVD +/-RW Optical Drive USB C Burner Slim CD/DVD ROM Rewriter Writer Reader Portable for PC Laptop Desktop MacBook Mac Windows 7/8.1/10 Linux OS Apple ...

A mail-order house called Tenex (800-776-6781) has an internal CD-ROM player (it fits in a disk drive bay inside your computer) for $199 and an external model that looks exactly like the DAK for $289.

While CD-RW drive sales are soaring and DVD-ROM drives continue to struggle for widespread consumer acceptance, drive manufacturers are pinning their hopes on the CD-RW/DVD-ROM combination drive to ...

There also are external CD-ROM drives that attach to a parallel port. Another note of caution: any computer that came with Windows95 is beginning to show its age.

External CD-ROM drives are now widely available for less than $500, although some of the more advanced models still cost $1,000 or more. Many drives come with an assortment of software.

This isn't a problem when I have the external CD-ROM drive with me (although it is a hassle), but I don't take the drive with me when I'm on the road.

I have been given an external CD-ROM drive.The back of the cd-rom has two ports. One is the standard audio Left and audio Right plugs.The interface plug/port for this CD-ROM looks *exactly* like a ...

We tested the drives with 16x-rated CD-R media and 10x-rated CD-RW discs, using a Power Mac G4/500 running Mac OS 9.1 (all the drives appeared on the desktop in OS X).

CD-ROM, a technology that used to be as exciting as a 10,000-page statistical data base, is trying to enter the consumer and education markets on the coattails of its flashier cousin, the audio ...

Nine Times the CD-ROM Rating Each DVD X is equivalent to roughly nine X's of CD speed because a DVD 1x is 1.39MB and a CD-ROM 1x is 150KB. See DVD player and CD-ROM drives.