A Compact Disc (CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data. CD-ROMs and CD-Rs remain widely used technologies in the computer industry.CD-ROM drives employ a near-infrared 780 nm laser diode.

How does a compact disc work? Digital data is stored in a long spiral string of microscopic bumps – or pits, if viewed from above – measuring 125 nanometers in height or depth (in a weird ...

Compact Disc Firsts. Optical digital data-storage was invented by Jim Russel who filed the first patents in 1966, later purchased by Sony and Philips to develop the CD; Developed in collaboration by ...

A developer has dusted off an almost 20-year-old software project for burning visual artwork onto the data surface of a Compact Disc. ... or anything else you may care to store on a CD in 2025.

An obsolete form of optical media known as the "Compact Disc" celebrates its 25th birthday tomorrow. In a press release issued Thursday, Philips said a staggering 200 billion of them were produced ...

In experiments, DNAformer could read 100 megabytes of DNA-stored data nearly 90 times faster than the next fastest method – which was developed with traditional, rules-based computing algorithms ...

On October 1, 1982, the first commercial compact disc, Billy Joel’s “52nd Street,” was released in Japan. In the 30 years since, hundreds of billions of CDs have been sold, Joel has stopped ...

The first sample compact disc - better known as a CD - was created 40 years ago. ... At a time before before online music existed, it became the most sophisticated way to store and play music.

August 17, 2007: The compact disk celebrates its 25 th anniversary today. Jointly developed by Royal Philips Electronics in Holland and the Sony ... the recording industry in the 1990s, replacing ...

Imagine a DVD-sized disk that could store more than 10,000 times the data of a Blu-ray Disc, a feat that could lead to vast savings of storage space and energy in an era of big data and artificial ...