CD:ROM drives are the thing of the future. CD:ROMs are used in almost every computer around the world. CD:ROM stands for COMPACT DISK READ ONLY MEMORY. That means that you can only read information off the disk. Three and a half disks are disks that you can read and wriye infromation from. Five and a quarter can do the same thing , but do not hold as much information. Five and a quarter …showed first 75 words of 1253 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1253 total…speed CD:ROM drive is still not on the market for sale but it is being made as we speek. Itis supposed to be on sale to the consumer in about two years. This report is is about CD:ROMs and CD:ROM drives how they work. I talked about speeds , styles , hooking them up , I compared them to compact disk players. BIBLIOGRAPHY Grolier Multimedia encyclopedia Version 7.04 1995 Copyright 1995 "PC MAGAZINE" October 1991 Author:doesn't say Copyright 1991