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FireWire CD-RW Drives

Back when blank CDs cost a whopping $5 each and 4X CD-R drives were the top of the line, it was hard to imagine the compact disc ever taking the place of the floppy disc. But now that blank CDs cost ...
PC Magazine

phase change disc

A rewritable optical disc. First used in drives by Panasonic in the late 1980s, the phase change technology was subsequently employed in all major optical drives, including CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, ...
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New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc

A developer has dusted off an almost 20-year-old software project for burning visual artwork onto the data surface of a Compact Disc. Arduinocelentano stresses that the applied imaging technique ...
Science Daily

UCSD Scientists Develop Novel Way To Screen Molecules Using Conventional CDs And Compact Disk Players

Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a novel method of detecting molecules with a conventional compact disk player that provides scientists with an inexpensive way to ...
BBC

External backing stores - optical discs

CD-ROM - read only, the data is written to them before they are sold. CD-R - meaning CD-Recordable, the user can write data to the CD once or fill it over time using multi-session (writing to the same ...