Labels:chat room | crt screen | hakham | monitor | sky OCR: 6 -6 THE COMPUTER MARKETPLACE CD ROM Drive: Worth Co st? Do need a CD-ROM drive? CD-ROM drive worthwhile investment that lets you use multimedia game educational and reference applica ations that are available only on CD. -ROM Today. most microcomputers are configured with CD-ROM drive Compared to floppy drive CD-ROM drive delivers data at faster rate and provides better performance, especially with multimedia applications You should purchase the fastest CD -ROM drive that you can afford The access time today's CD-ROM drives is 100 to 200 ms, ten times slower than a hard drive In ads, however the speed of a CD-ROM Idrive IS measured by comparing i data transfer rate to the rate of the original CD-ROM technology For example the original CD- -ROM drives had a data transfer rate 150 KB per se ...
