So You Want To Buy A Cd-Rom

So You Want to Buy a CD-ROMThere are a few criteria to keep in mind when purchasing a CD-Rom drive. First and foremost is speed: How fast does the sucker spin? Speed determines how quickly your drive can transfer data to the screen and how smooth your video will be, although, increasingly, speed can also be determined by software. The first CD-Rom drives transferred data at 150 kilobytes per second. This was adequate for text and sound but sucked for animation. Videos on single-speed drives were...