CD-ROM.
CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer. While the compact disc format was originally designed for music storage and playback, the 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data.
Five years later CD-ROM drives were being introduced on to computers. In 1994, they called a computer with a CD-ROM a Multimedia computer since it could play music and specially coded videos. Companies like Creative Technologies created a Sound Blaster multimedia upgrade kit which at the time gave the user a CD-ROM Drive with driver, a sound card and speakers. This in 1994 was a $200 product. Windows 95 in 1995 was introduced on either 10, 3.5-inch disks or 1 CD-ROM.
CD-ROMs are popularly used to distribute computer software, including games and multimedia applications, though any data can be stored (up to the capacity limit of a disc). Some CDs hold both computer data and audio with the latter capable of being played on a CD player, while data (such as software or digital video) is only usable on a computer (such as PC CD-ROMs). These are called enhanced CDs.
Although many people use lowercase letters in this acronym, proper presentation is in all capital letters with a hyphen between CD and ROM. It was also suggested by some, especially soon after the technology was first released, that CD-ROM was an acronym for "Compact Disc read-only-media", or that it was a more "correct" definition. This was not the intention of the original team who developed the CD-ROM, and common acceptance of the "memory" definition is now almost universal. This is probably in no small part due to the widespread use of other "ROM" acronyms such as Flash-ROMs and EEPROMs where "memory" is usually the correct term.
CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer. While the compact disc format was originally designed for music storage and playback, the 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data.
Five years later CD-ROM drives were being introduced on to computers. In 1994, they called a computer with a CD-ROM a Multimedia computer since it could play music and specially coded videos. Companies like Creative Technologies created a Sound Blaster multimedia upgrade kit which at the time gave the user a CD-ROM Drive with driver, a sound card and speakers. This in 1994 was a $200 product. Windows 95 in 1995 was introduced on either 10, 3.5-inch disks or 1 CD-ROM.
CD-ROMs are popularly used to distribute computer software, including games and multimedia applications, though any data can be stored (up to the capacity limit of a disc). Some CDs hold both computer data and audio with the latter capable of being played on a CD player, while data (such as software or digital video) is only usable on a computer (such as PC CD-ROMs). These are called enhanced CDs.
Although many people use lowercase letters in this acronym, proper presentation is in all capital letters with a hyphen between CD and ROM. It was also suggested by some, especially soon after the technology was first released, that CD-ROM was an acronym for "Compact Disc read-only-media", or that it was a more "correct" definition. This was not the intention of the original team who developed the CD-ROM, and common acceptance of the "memory" definition is now almost universal. This is probably in no small part due to the widespread use of other "ROM" acronyms such as Flash-ROMs and EEPROMs where "memory" is usually the correct term.
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