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CD-ROM

[see-dee-rom] / ˈsiˌdiˈrɒm /
NOUN
read-only memory
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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

Things like the Tamagotchi, an inflatable couch, a Pizza Hut Book It coupon, and a desktop computer with a CD-ROM and dial-up modem noises.

From Washington Post Mar. 1, 2023

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

The demands for alien intel became so many that the CIA eventually compiled it onto a CD-ROM, obtained by Greenwald and uploaded to the Black Vault, divvied into dozens of downloadable PDFs.

From Fox News Jan. 12, 2021

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

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor




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