On October 1, 1982, Sony ignited a digital audio revolution with the release of the world’s first commercial compact disc player, the CDP-101 (above), in Japan. It signaled the dawn of a new audio ...

Parasound teams with Holm Acoustics to deliver a radically different approach to extracting the best possible sound from a Compact Disc Parasound introduced the Halo CD 1, which uses a new CD playback ...

This article describes how to set up a virtual CD-ROM jukebox (VCDJ) using Samba and Linux. A VCDJ is a network server that provides access to the contents of a large number of CD-ROM disks, without ...

Unlike today, it didn't always seem retro to put a compact disc in a computer in order to find information — three decades ago, in fact, it seemed very cutting edge. As the CBC's Fred Langan reported ...

CD-Audio and CD-ROM were established in the early 1980s as the "new thing" to replace the venerable analog long-playing record. This digital format was very quickly accepted as the standard because it ...

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 ...

The image was clicked in 1994. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently shared a picture of him which was taken 30 years ago. The iconic picture shows the billionaire sitting on a stack of over three ...