CD-ROM disc drive. Compact discs (CDs) flowing into the opened CD-ROM disc drive of a personal computer. CD-ROM is an acronym for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory. These CDs or CD-ROM discs are a very powerful storage medium for information. Information is stored in digital form as a pattern of pits on the aluminium-coated plastic disc. A laser then scans the compact disc. A single CD-ROM disc may store 600 Megabytes of data or more,equivalent to some 300,000 pages of text. As they can also store images and sound,CD-ROM discs are used to run multimedia computer programmes | |
Licence : | Droits gérés |
Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Horrell, Steve |
Taille de l’image : | 4893 px × 3749 px |
Model Release : | Non requis |
Property Release : | Non requis |
Restrictions : | - |