You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar ...

Compact discs, or CDs, were revolutionary when they first emerged as a new medium for listening to music in the 1980s. Part of their success is alluded to in the name itself: the slim, compact size of ...

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 ...

In the innocent days of the early 90s the future of personal computing still seemed to be wide open, with pundits making various statements regarding tis potential trajectories. To many, the internet ...

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 ...

Rhenn is a Manila-based content writer with a love for all things geek and pop culture, and science and technology. He graduated BA Journalism degree as a Cum Laude, and has since then pursued making ...

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My CIO has given me his home computer to fix. It is a wonderful Dimension 4550 with like 19 versions of AOL installed, but here is the deal:<BR><BR>His CD drives are ...

Step-by-step instructions for installing OpenBSD 4.0 for Windows admins trying to do it for the first time. I’ve already had a lot of positive feedback on my support for OpenBSD in my recent column.

Ok systems: (1) desktop and (1) laptop<BR>Desktop has a cd burner and the laptop does not.<BR>Imaged the laptop, and even using maximum (high) compression the ghost image file came to 777mb, which is ...