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Waveform Audio File Format  |  1994-06-16  |  1.1 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  52 seconds
Transcription: Removable cartridges combine the speed and storage capacity of a hard drive with the ability to use more than a single disk as with a floppy drive. Popular types include Bernoulli and CyQuest drives. A magneto-optical drive combines the advantages of a hard drive, which is based on magnetism, and an optical drive such as a CD-ROM which uses a laser beam to read data. Optical drives can't erased or changed data, they're read only. But a magneto optical drive givesbest of both worlds. The high storage capacity of the CD-ROM plus the ability to change or delete data magnetically. The drive uses a ...