CD-ROM的意思|CD-ROM的解释-里氏词典

CD-ROM [si:di:'rɔm]

只读存储光盘
n. (只读)光盘驱动器

cd-rom

[ noun ]
a compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with an audio system); a large amount of digital information can be stored and accessed but it cannot be altered by the user
<noun.artifact>

CD-ROM \CD-ROM\ n.
a compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with
an audio system); a large amount of digital information can
be stored and accessed but it cannot be altered by the user.

Syn: compact disc read-only memory.
[WordNet 1.5]

Docking stations also have built-in expansion slots and extra ports to give easy access to the company network and to peripherals such as a CD-ROM drive and a printer.
Since the two devices use almost identical technology, the price of CD-ROM players is sure to drop dramatically as they become standard equipment for both office and home computers.
The $200 Grolier's Academic American Encyclopedia is just the first application to become available on CD-ROM for the general public.
Sony plans to unveil a CD-ROM "bundle," including the computer attachment needed to run a multimedia disk, and five or six disks containing an encyclopedia, almanac, even an educational video game.
The universe of PC users who have CD-ROM drives remains relatively small, so media companies aren't sure how much to invest.
The companies said domestic sales of the CD-ROM systems, which they plan to introduce next spring, should reach 20,000 during the first year on the market.
CD-ROM disk versions of children's classics such as The Tale of Benjamin Bunny; for Macintosh.
Many of his choices require CD-ROM drives and color monitors.
Another caution: CD-ROM disks require careful handling. Nearly all drives require that protective "caddies" be used with disks; that can either mean lots of loading and unloading of caddies, or buying one caddy for each disk you own.
Retailing at $195, it is used on a CD-ROM player attached to a personal computer.
In the case of Kompass and CD Europa, for example, the CD-ROM option has been chosen.
DAK Industries, the mail-order electronics firm, offers a Sony-built free-standing drive with just the Microsoft Bookshelf disk for $399. Radio Shack has a new CD-ROM drive for $399, without software, for mounting in your computer.
"Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective" is a CD-ROM game available for TurboGrafx.
Her job is to weigh the cost of the CD-ROM service against the cost of pay-as-you-go on-line services.
But he added that the CD-ROM disk is "an interesting technology" and that Dialog is developing or offering several data bases on the technology.
Asked about strategic links, Mr. Maxwell can readily point to only one nascent effort: His Nimbus Records classical-music division has a compact-disk plant that has begun putting Macmillan textbooks on CD-ROM disks.
Since all of these resources are available through commercially available CD-ROM services, the process of gathering data is significantly speeded up.
So far, a small but steady stream of reference books has been put on floppy and CD-ROM disks so they can be used on a computer.
Essentially, the system, to be known as CD-ROM Extended Architecture, will allow linkage between Sony's and Philip's CD-Rom format and Microsoft's own format, known as CD-1.
"The guy with the idea to put the history of rock 'n' roll on CD-ROM is brilliant," says Peter Blakeney, manager in IBM's multimedia and education division, who helped develop "Mammals."
CD-ROM readers, coupled with commercially available disks of corporate data purchased from business publishers, make an impressive tool for the job seeker.

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