CD-Writer

A CD-Writer

CD-Writer:

1.       The CD and CD-ROM technology were invented in the mid-1960s by an American scientist named James Russell.

2.       A CD writer is a piece of computer equipment that you use for copying data from a computer onto a CD.

3.       A CD-Writer is an output device.

4.       It can write once on a recordable compact disk (CD-R) to create a CD-ROM.

5.       CD-ROM is the backbone of multimedia applications.

6.       It can hold within it the combination of text, sound, graphics, motion video and animations.

7.       Nearly all the PCs have CD-ROM drives.

8.       A CD-R is written by CD-Writers.

9.       CD-Writers offer a low-cost alternative in making softcopies.

10.   The data cannot be changed once written on a disk.

11.   It can be only read from the disk.

12.   There are three main types of CD-Writer:

                                                   i.            Standard Manufactured CDs (CD-DA),

                                                 ii.            CD-R recordable and

                                                iii.            CD-RW rewriteable.