Labels:airplane | arcade machine | bench | car | cd drive | cd rom | cd rom drive | conveyer belt | earth | grass | hood | plaything | shelf | sky OCR: 4-26 COM PUTER FIL ES AND DATA STORAG CD ROM Sto ra ge If CD-ROMs are read only doesn't that limit their use? CD. ROMs are based on the InfoWeb same technology as the audio CDs you inq at Your fav orite music store CD- ROM (pronounced "cee dee rom") stands for Compact Disc Read Only Memory computer CD. ROM disc like its audio counterpart ains daea that has been stamped on the disk CD-ROM surface series of pits read the data on CD-ROM. an optical read head distin- Update guishes the patterns of pits that represent bytes Fiqure 4-27 shows how you load CD into the CD-ROM Figure 4-27 CD- -ROM storage The printed side of the disk does nO contain data It should be face up when you insert the disk because the laser: reac the of the dist Compton's Interactive Encyclopedi Date IS stored on the bott ...
