X-Nico

80 unusual facts about Rom


2 Brothers on the 4th Floor

Packaged with The Sun Will Be Shining was a CD-ROM featuring the videos of "The Sun Will Be Shining" and "The Making Of".

85th Scripps National Spelling Bee

All finalists received a DVD of the 2011 Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite and contestants received a cash prize from Scripps, as well as a CD-ROM of Webster's Third New International Dictionary.

Alan Currall

Encyclopaedia is a CD-ROM encyclopaedia with video clips by 'non-experts' who have influenced the artist in some way, such as his friends and family.

American Memory

Selected Library of Congress holdings including examples of film, video, audio recordings, books and photographs were digitized and distributed on Laserdisc and CD-ROM.

Angela Bianchini

She translated Medieval French Novels (Romanzi medievali d'amore e d'avventura, Grandi Libri Garzanti, now reprinted and in CD-ROM), and edited a Renaissance correspondence (Lettere della fiorentina Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi, Garzanti 1989).

Artists' CD-ROM

Presentation of work in this format enables artists to put multimedia and Hypertext into Installation art.

ASHRAE Handbook

Members of ASHRAE receive the current volume, in both print and CD-ROM form, each year as a basic membership benefit.

Blended learning

In the early 1980s, CD-ROMs emerged as a dominant form of providing technology-based learning as bandwidth through 56k modems weren’t able to support very high quality sound and video.

CD-ROM

Because the depth of the pits is approximately one-quarter to one-sixth of the wavelength of the laser light used to read the disc, the reflected beam's phase is shifted in relation to the incoming beam, causing destructive interference and reducing the reflected beam's intensity.

Several formats are used for data stored on compact discs, known as the Rainbow Books.

One of a set of color-bound books that contain the technical specifications for all CD formats, the Yellow Book, created by Sony and Philips in 1988, was the first extension of Compact Disc Digital Audio.

CDVD

Such discs must be written in the so-called "Mode 1", which is compatible with both the ISO 9660 and UDF 1.02 filesystems, and therefore limits the amount of data that can be stored on an 80-minute CD to 700 MiB.

Christine Tamblyn

Her two CD-ROMs, "She Loves It, She Loves It Not: Women and Technology" (1993 collaboration with Marjorie Franklin and Paul Tompkins) and "Mistaken Identities" have been shown internationally and featured at museums, galleries and conferences.

CLIWOC

An initial version of the database was released in late 2003, as a CD-ROM and via the CLIWOC website.

Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military

In 1994, Clinton Fein's ApolloMedia, with the blessing of Shilts, purchased the electronic rights from St. Martin's Press, and in January 1995 released Conduct Unbecoming, the first ever CD-ROM to tackle social issues by providing technological tools.

Deborah Jeane Palfrey

On July 9, 2007, Palfrey released the supposed entirety of her phone records for public viewing and downloading on the Internet in TIFF format, though days prior to this, her civil attorney Montgomery Blair Sibley had dispatched 54 CD-ROM copies to researchers, activists, and journalists.

Den Store Danske Encyklopædi

The text of the paper encyclopedia was also published, but without illustrations, on CD-ROMs for Microsoft Windows in 2004 and for Mac OS in 2005.

Digital performance

CD-ROMs, video games and a countless amount of installations exaggerated and performed by users upped the level of interactive potential of computers.

DiMenna–Nyselius Library

Steady technological improvements continued to augment the library-a CD-ROM reference center in 1990 thanks to the Gladys Brooks Foundation; a CD-ROM LAN in 1991 thanks to grants from the E.L. Cord Foundation and the George I. Alden Trust; an online public access catalog in 1993; and a computer lab with 25 workstations in 1997.

Dionysis Simopoulos

He has written over 250 Planetarium show scripts, two sets of scripts (30 and 24 episodes) for special Video Lessons on astronomy and space science (for the Greek Ministry of Education ), a series of four CD-ROMs on astronomy, and has delivered more than 500 lectures on science and Astrophysics all over Greece.

Disk storage

Disk storage is now used in both computer storage and consumer electronic storage, e.g., audio CDs and video discs (standard DVD and Blu-ray).

Donald N. Frey

He was instrumental in promoting the first successful CD-ROM based information system, designing the dealer auto parts catalog for General Motors, by David Gump, to be distributed to dealers on CD.

Edmund Welles

Tooth & Claw has a companion CD-ROM which contains archival versions of four of the group's songs, 69 pages of music notation for the CD's 12 songs, eight brief instructional videos, and nine drum machine click track recordings to practice with.

Elizabeth Cosson

On 15 May 2006, following a meeting with the Victorian Coroner, she left a CD-ROM containing a draft copy of her confidential report in a public computer in the Qantas Club lounge of Melbourne Airport.

Feasting on Blood

A digipack version of this album was also released which included two bonus tracks from the Lambs of a God 7 inch EP and a CD-ROM video.

GD-ROM

Developed by Yamaha, Sega intended to use the format to curb piracy common to standard compact discs and to offer increased storage capacity.

Graeme Sullivan

In 1998 he produced a CD-ROM entitled Critical Influence: A Visual Arts Research Project, which documented two contemporary artists preparing for an exhibition, and explored the influences and contexts between their separate art practices.

Greenberg v. National Geographic

An electronic edition "The Complete National Geographic on CD-ROM and DVD," consisting of over 108 years of an exact image-based reproduction of each and every page of each monthly paper issue of National Geographic magazine, has been tied up in copyright litigation for over ten years by a handful of prior photographers and contributors since shortly after the digital archive was issued in late 1997.

Greenwood Publishing Group

Under Smith, GPG made a number of additional acquisitions including the Ablex and Oryx imprints and Libraries Unlimited, and expanded GPG's on line and CD-ROM products under its Greenwood Electronic Media imprint.

Grote Spectrum Encyclopedie

The rise of new storage media in the 1990s (CD-ROM, DVD) halted the plans for a second edition of the Grote Spectrum Encyclopedie.

Highlander: The Last of the MacLeods

Highlander: The Last of the Macleods is a video game developed by Lore Design Limited and published by Atari for the Atari Jaguar CD-ROM home console system.

Hill-Rom

In October 2008, Hill-Rom acquired Sweden-based Liko, a manufacturer of mobile and stationary patient lift systems and associated accessories for $183M.

The company has their primary offices and manufacturing facilities in Acton, MA, Batesville, IN, Cary, NC, Charleston, SC, Montpellier, France, Pluvigner (France), Monterrey, Mexico, and as well as a multitude of offices and service centers around the world.

Hill-Rom Holdings

Hill-Rom makes hospital beds, furniture, other medical equipment, and medical technology systems.

HP Integrity Servers

CD/DVD-ROM (required for installation of Windows Server 2003 and OpenVMS)

Hyper CD-ROM

The Hyper CD-ROM is an optical data storage device similar to the CD-ROM with a multilayer 3D structure, invented by Romanian scientist Dr. Eugen Pavel.

Inside Macintosh

In the late 1990s, Apple ceased to publish Inside Macintosh as a printed book, instead making it available as a CD-ROM, and online.

Intermediate distribution frame

In WAN and LAN environments IDFs can hold devices of different types including backup systems (hard drives or other media as self-contained, or as RAIDs, CD-ROMs, etc.), networking (switches, hubs, routers), and connections (fiber optics, coaxial, category cables) and so on.

Jitter

Due to additional sector level addressing added in the Yellow Book, CD-ROM data discs are not subject to seek jitter.

A jitter meter is a testing instrument for measuring clock jitter values, and is used in manufacturing DVD and CD-ROM discs.

Kettle of Fish

In Europe, the limited first edition of the album included a bonus CD-ROM with three videos and additional material.

Khazar University Library Information Center

The university's Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) is its Bibliographic database which users may use to search for materials such as books, periodicals, video recordings, and CD-ROMs in English, Azeri, Russian and other languages.

Lotus Marketplace

This program was rather large (even by today's standards), as it was supposed to be released on several CD-ROMs.

Magic Grandad

In the years following the programme a number of educational items were released in the UK including a CD-ROM entitled Magic Grandad's Seaside Holidays designed for Key Stage 1 pupils to learns about history in the same way the TV show taught them.

Microsoft Music Central

Microsoft Music Central was a music encyclopedia on CD-ROM produced by Microsoft, similar to their Cinemania product and part of the Microsoft Home range.

Mina Celentano

A special edition of the album, titled Mina Celentano - Buon Natale, was released during the Christmas season packed with a CD-ROM titled "Molly e destino solitario" and new artwork.

Mobile Public Library

The Local History and Genealogy Division includes works by local authors, Mobile histories, periodicals, Mobile newspapers on microfilm from 1819 to the present, city directories from 1837 onward, federal census records for most of the Southeastern United States, and the Mobile Historic Development Commission's survey of historic architecture in Mobile with 10,000 images stored and indexed on CD-ROM.

Monier Monier-Williams

It is also now available on CD-ROM and is the basis of the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.

National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging

NACDA was one of the first organizations to develop and release studies on CD-ROM.

Navigation package

CD-ROM drive or other computer storage of mapping information.

Nemir Matos-Cintrón

Her passion for Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, and Multimedia Technology culminated with the research, production and publication of the multimedia CD-ROM Puerto Ricans in the USA: A Hundred Years.

Noesis Cultural Society

The Noesis Cultural Society (Romanian Societatea Culturală Noesis) is a Romanian organization that produces and markets CD-ROM-based works pertaining to Romanian culture and thought.

NTLDR

NTLDR is typically run from the primary hard disk drive, but it can also run from portable storage devices such as a CD-ROM, USB flash drive, or floppy disk.

Optical storage

Optical storage can range from a single drive reading a single CD-ROM to multiple drives reading multiple discs such as an optical jukebox.

The term optical drive usually refers to a device in a computer that can read CD-ROMs or other optical discs.

Outrunner

This type of motor spins its outer shell around its windings, much like motors found in ordinary CD-ROM computer drives.

OverDrive, Inc.

OverDrive was founded in 1986, and initially converted analog media to digital formats such as interactive diskettes and CD-ROMs.

Papillon Rose

Subsequently an episode guide for the (non-existent) first series and manga was also made available, as well as a set of CD-ROMs containing a 2-minute animated promotional clip, eight tracks (six BGM and two vocal songs), system voice clips for computers, a Papillon Rose mahjong game, and two screen savers.

Paul Knobel

Paul Knobel (born 1948) is an Australian poet and the author of "An Encyclopedia of Male Homosexual Poetry and its Reception History" (2002), a CD-ROM encyclopedia of 1 million words covering 243 languages and 118 countries and with 6,300 entries.

Personal health record

Some PHR products allow the copying of health records to a mass-storage device such as a CD-ROM, DVD, smart card, or USB flash drive.

PESC Information Systems College

The education method provides modules in text form, and lectures in CD ROM format, to students for home use by VCD players, TV sets, and computers at home or office.

Phase One: Celebrity Take Down

The DVD came with an extra CD-ROM containing desktop wallpapers, screensavers and other such special features.

Phoenix Radio

Phoenix Radio then became recognised as the first in the country to develop CD-ROM based portfolios for the Youth Achievement Award.

QuickLOAD

Since version 3.0 QuickLOAD/QuickTARGET is supplied on a CD-ROM and requires Microsoft Windows 98 or a newer Microsoft Windows operating system version.

Raça Negra

Several hundred copies of AOL CD-ROMs were accidentally pressed with a Raça Negra album instead of the company software.

Random-access memory

As suggested above, smaller amounts of RAM (mostly SRAM) are also integrated in the CPU and other ICs on the motherboard, as well as in hard-drives, CD-ROMs, and several other parts of the computer system.

RealSky

RealSky is on nine CD-ROMs (eight data discs and one software disc), and RealSky South uses 11 CD-ROMs (ten data discs and one software disc).

Richard E. Turley, Jr.

Other records were also released on CD-ROM, including the Freedman’s Bank (of African-American records), the Mormon Immigration Index, European Vital Records Indexes, and 1880s censuses, including the 1881 British Census, which won the Besterman/McColvin Award from the Library Association of Great Britain.

ROM-4

The rap group "ROM-4" was formed for the Japanese television drama, Seishun Energy: Check It Out, Yo! in Tokyo (青春★ENERGY ~ チェケラッチョ!! In Tokyo), that aired on Fuji TV from April 12, 2006 to June 15, 2006.

Shelly Palmer

expanded its staff and production facilities to include more work with music as well as programming and production for CD-ROM, the World Wide Web, Interactive Television and other digital media.

Sona College of Technology

It possesses an Electronic library with 1820 CD-ROMs and 820 video lectures, sports facilities, stadiums, courts, gymnasium, swimming pool, golf, and billiards, and language Lab, Management Information System.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion

An unrelated CD-ROM also called the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion was released in 1999 and features the scripts for the entire series and the trailers for each episode featuring Don LaFontaine as the announcer among others.

Tamil Heritage Foundation

The limited collection of ancient, rare books and palm-leaf manuscripts are digitally available on the internet or on CD-ROM to the public free of charge.

That Should Cover It!

The CD-ROM also contains the music video for the song "Centerfold" (made with the help of Goblin Pictures).

Universidade Aberta

The printed materials, which constitute the core of the University's courses, are usually complemented by videocassettes, audiocassettes, CD-ROMs, Internet and TV and radio broadcasts.

University Institute of Information Technology, Himachal Pradesh University

Plans to create a special section of e-books, CD-ROM and other resource material to provide a resource bank of share wares and other learning material are also on their way to implementation.

Virgin Webplayer

Some users modified the Webplayer case to accept a built-in CD-ROM drive, Ethernet ports, and Wi-Fi antennas.

What You Mean We?

Anderson would later return to the experiment of creating an alter ego with her CD-ROM release Puppet Motel, which replaced the clone with a ventriloquist dummy.

Xiandai Hanyu Cidian

The dictionary is also available in digital format on CD-ROMs and Traditional Chinese digital versions.

Zelda's Adventure

In 1989, Nintendo signed a deal with Sony to begin development of a CD-ROM-based system known as the "Nintendo PlayStation" or the SNES CD to be an add-on to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that would allow for FMV and larger games.


A570

Amiga A570, an external CD-ROM drive for the Amiga 500 computer

Aftermath Media

Both Landeros and Wheeler had previously worked at Trilobyte, makers of the bestselling CD-ROM computer game The 7th Guest.

Alex Alben

At Starwave, Alben worked on pioneering CD-ROM products and helped launch popular web sites such as ABCNews.com and ESPN.com.

Bitter Suites to Succubi

The Special Edition features a teaser for the video for "Born in a Burial Gown" as ROM content, along with a trailer for Cradle of Fear and a "Gallery of the Grotesque" (containing the sleeve art).

Blue Board

Among BBS software available in its day, Blue Board was notable in that it made creative use of the computer's limited RAM space, including the shadow RAM behind its ROMs, to store frequently-referenced data such as usernames, passwords, and message headers.

CcTalk

ccTalk protocol stacks have been implemented on a range of devices from tiny Microchip microcontrollers with 512 bytes of ROM to powerful ARM7 32-bit processors.

Clive Reston

He went on to be a recurring character in the Master of Kung Fu series, as well as occasionally appearing in other series such as Rom and X-Men.

Fast loader

A few commercial fast loaders, most notably CMD's JiffyDOS, were not cartridge-driven but instead replaced the KERNAL ROM in the C64 and the DOS ROM in the 1541.

Franz Xaver Kraus

After a few translations from the French (van Hemen, de Ravignan, and Lacordaire) he began his independent literary career with small works on the history of early Christian literature in the first centuries and the Middle Ages, among them: "Ægidius von Rom"

Free60

On the Xbox 360, one such exploit exists, relying on and utilizing a modified DVD-ROM drive firmware, a modified burnt disc of the game King Kong (for Xbox 360), and the target console having either one of two vulnerable Kernel revisions.

Hands on Me

It was mentioned as a possible choice for the second single in a June 2007 article in Entertainment Weekly, which wrote that it "sounded tailor-made for a rom-com trailer coming soon to a theater near you." Irv Gotti, the head of Carlton's label, The Inc. Records, was quoted as saying that the song reminded him of the 1985 film The Breakfast Club.

Jack Reid

He produced an instructional CD-ROM and did a mini-series of painting demos, broadcast on Rogers Cable.

Microsoft Developer Network

The Microsoft Developer Network was launched in June 1992 as a quarterly, CD-ROM-based compilation of technical articles, sample code, and software development kits, as well as a 16-page tabloid newspaper, the Microsoft Developer Network News, edited by Andrew Himes, who had previously been the founding editor of MacTech, the premiere Macintosh technology journal.

Natalia Rom

Mme Rom may be seen on the DVD of the Met's 1984 production of Francesca da Rimini (as Biancofiore), with Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, and Cornell MacNeil.

Nickernut

In 1693 James Wallace referred to them being often found in Orkney: "After Storms of Westerly Wind amongst the Sea-weed, they find commonly in places expos'd to the Western-Ocean these Phaseoli . . . . From the West-Indies, where they commonly grow, they may be thrown in on Ireland, the Western parts of Scotland and Orkney".

Old World ROM

Old World ROM Macintosh computers are the Macintosh models that use a Macintosh Toolbox ROM chip, usually in a socket (but soldered to the motherboard in some models).

Randy Wigginton

Wigginton collaborated with Wozniak on the circuit design and ROM software for the Apple II in 1977.

Rebecca Hargrave Malamud

In 1996, she designed the Internet 1996 World Exposition (website, book and CD-rom) with Carl Malamud, working remotely from her office in Cincinnati, Ohio, with a team of artists, writers, programmers and photographers around the globe.

Richard Altwasser

His first assigned job was to write some programs to demonstrate the capabilities of the new 8 kB ROM and 16 kB RAM expansion for the ZX80.

Sega Smash Pack ROM Loader

The Sega Smash Pack ROM Loader is a front-end loader program released by the warez group Echelon, allowing a user to load their own ROMs into the Sega Genesis emulator built into Sega's Sega Smash Pack Volume 1 game for the Dreamcast.

Songs from the Superunknown

The CD-ROM Alive in the Superunknown contains the first four tracks from Songs from the Superunknown plus a multimedia portion featuring photos of the band, a video game, four music videos ("The Day I Tried to Live", "Black Hole Sun", "My Wave", and "Fell on Black Days"), a performance/special effects video of "Superunknown", and a live video of "Kickstand", among other things.

Spaceknights

The idea of the Spaceknights was invented by the Parker Brothers toy company as part of the background for their toy character of Rom, but it was developed in the Marvel Rom comic, in 1979, by Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema.

The Legend of Lotus Spring

Mac OS System 7.5
90 MHz PowerPC
16 MB RAM
10 MB hard disk space
8x CD-ROM drive
640x480 display
thousands of colours

Timex Sinclair 2048

According to an early Timex Sinclair 2000 computer flyer, it would be a cut-down TS2068 with 48 KB of RAM and advertised as a 48 KB memory machine (The TS2068 might have been called the 2072 because of the add of 24 KB ROM + 48 KB RAM = 72KB).

Uberdata

Uberdata (also known as Überdata or Uber data) is a ROM editing software designed specifically for On Board Diagnostics (OBD) Honda Engine control units.

Xbox modding

Within a few months of its release the initial layer of security on the Xbox BIOS (which relied heavily on obfuscation) was broken by MIT student Andrew Huang and the contents of the "hidden" boot ROM embedded on the MCPx chip was extracted using some custom built hardware.