Through the looking glass: The compact disc's 43-year journey, from technical experiment to a worldwide standard, tells the story of how global collaboration and bold engineering can reshape entire ...
Everything fails eventually, but moving parts fail fastest of all– and optical drives seemingly more than others, at least in our experience. Even when they work, vintage drives often have trouble ...
The new Dodge Charger Daytona EV is struggling to find a footing with enthusiasts, what with the old, discontinued Charger and Challenger outselling it over the first quarter of the year, and ...
Retro game enthusiasts may already be acquainted with Analogue, a company that designs and manufactures updated versions of classic consoles that can play original games but also be hooked up to ...
These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has been the ...
Frontiers Of The Mind is cursed, by which I mean that 7-Zip turned red while I was extracting the file. What unsightly encounter deep within the bowels of my download file caused this temporary ...
When Booting from CD-ROM (using known good bootable ISOs), the BIOS either: does a loud beep and says "Press a key to reboot" or fails to boot from CD-ROM entirely (This happens with a Windows NT 5.0 ...
In 1994, multimedia discs—from encyclopedias to magazines—flooded the market, and felt like the future. It was fun while it lasted. At the time, it was the CD-ROM that had captured the imagination of ...
I have a single hard drive set up on IDE 0:0 and an ATAPI CD-ROM set up on IDE 0:1 as type 86BOX CD-ROM 1.00. MS-DOS identifies that a CD-ROM is installed, but I am unable to mount a CD. The CD-ROM ...
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