If, on the other hand, you were among the few who invested in CD-ROM when it was first released ... interface that hooks up the CD drive to your computer, as [Tech Tangents] found out when he ...

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 ...

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.