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  2. Video Professor - Wikipedia

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    According to Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, Video Professor is an Internet scam. [8] The company has been criticized [4] for its CD-ROM sales and advertising practice. Some complaints center on an alleged lack of clarity regarding the nature of the continuity sales model and the "free" CD-ROM.

  3. Optical disc drive - Wikipedia

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    Early sound cards could include a CD-ROM drive interface. Initially, such interfaces were proprietary to each CD-ROM manufacturer. A sound card could often have two or three different interfaces which are able to communicate with the CD-ROM drive. A method for using the parallel port to use with external drives was developed at some point. This ...

  4. CD-ROM - Wikipedia

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    CD-ROM drives are rated with a speed factor relative to music CDs. If a CD-ROM is read at the same rotational speed as an audio CD, the data transfer rate is 150 Kbyte/s, commonly called "1×" (with constant linear velocity, short "CLV"). At this data rate, the track moves along under the laser spot at about 1.2 m/s.

  5. Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal - Wikipedia

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    Russinovich's report was discussed on popular blogs almost immediately following its release. [53] NPR was one of the first major news outlets to report on the scandal on November 4, 2005. Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG's president of global digital business, said: "Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about ...

  6. MicroSolutions Backpack - Wikipedia

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    MicroSolutions Backpack was a line of peripheral devices introduced in 1990 [1] allowing users to attach a peripheral drive, namely hard drives, [2] CD-ROM drives, [3] and DVD±RW drives, [4] to their system. When the original model was released, USB ports did not yet exist, so the drive plugged into a system's printer port. [2]

  7. AppleCD - Wikipedia

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    Identified as model number M3021, just like its predecessor, the AppleCD SC, it used a 1x Read Only Media CD-ROM drive. The Plus could read a CD with up to 750 MB of data over the 650 MB of the AppleCD SC. It had indicator lights, an eject button, mini-phone audio jack, volume knob, and the CD caddy drive on the front of the accessory.

  8. Columbia House - Wikipedia

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    Columbia House has made forays into media besides music and movies. For a few years, Columbia House offered a CD-ROM club, allowing customers to buy computer games. It once allowed members to buy video games from its site, but did not offer a specific club for this. One could also agree to the regular purchase of box sets of popular TV series ...

  9. Disk image - Wikipedia

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    A disk image is a snapshot of a storage device's structure and data typically stored in one or more computer files on another storage device. [1] [2]Traditionally, disk images were bit-by-bit copies of every sector on a hard disk often created for digital forensic purposes, but it is now common to only copy allocated data to reduce storage space.