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CD-ROM

[see-dee-rom] / ˈsiˌdiˈrɒm /
NOUN
read-only memory
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Since full-motion video games weren’t quite at the crisp visual quality for home consoles with modern CD-ROM limitations, Anderson approached making the game as a frame-by-frame experiment.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2024

Not long after I started playing the cello, I heard a clip from “La Bohème” on Encarta, the Microsoft CD-ROM encyclopedia.

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

Tait spent 10 years at Microsoft on projects ranging from operating systems to CD-ROM programs, according to his LinkedIn profile.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2022

As computers became popular in the 1980s, Mr. Englander created an interactive CD-ROM guide to Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2021

I put in a CD-ROM called HealthTextand searched for “aneurysm.”

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor


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