A single CD-ROM can store 550 megabytes, or 275,000 pages of information. Instead of being locked inside your computer, a CD can fit in a pocket or be sent through the mail. The impact?

If you don't have bootable CD (or if the drive or the motherboard don't support booting from a CD) boot to a windows 98 startup disk, choose to boot with CD-ROM support and put in a CD and see if ...

Originally, computer CD-ROM players, which are about the same size as a 5 1/4-inch hard disk drive, sold for $1,000 and up.

News Windows 10 won’t run some older CD-ROM games, thanks to DRM SafeDisc and SecuRom DRM schemes are not allowed on Windows 10, which means the games that require it aren't allowed either.

In another case of digital rights management doing harm to paying customers, a slew of CD-ROM games are being rendered inoperable by a security update in Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.