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performance devices such as keyboards, mice, and

some storage products such as lower performance CD-

RW and ﬂoppy drives. Bandwidth is only about 1.2Mb

per second (maximum), and around 600Kb per second

sustained. Fast enough to record a CD at 4X. USB is

attractive for attaching peripherals as ports are stan-

dard on both PC and Macintosh computers, and is eas-

ily “plug & play” installed as external devices.

White Book Speciﬁcation for the Video CD developed

by Philips, Sony, JVC, and Matsushita. This speciﬁca-

tion uses the MPEG-1 video technology to store mo-

tion pictures efﬁciently on a standard capacity

Compact Disc. A Video CD is a Mode 2 CD-ROM XA

format disc.

Winchester Disk When originally developed, the

magnetic hard disk was named because the develop-

ment project was called “Winchester”, and the ﬁrst

drive model was 3030. Later the generic term for this

device came to be “hard disk”.

WORM An acronym for Write Once, Read Many;

which is another type of optical storage that is similar

to CD-R. Like CD-R, WORM is a write once technol-

ogy where the data is permanently recorded onto the

disc with a laser. Unlike CD-R, how-ever, WORM

drives and cartridges are of a proprietary format and

not suited for interchange.

Writable Optical Media This is kind of the umbrella

term for all optical media that can be written or record-

ed. It includes write-once technologies such as CD-R

and WORM, as well as rewritable optical technologies

such as CD-RW, MO, etc.

Yellow Book The Philips/Sony speciﬁcation for CD-

ROM discs based upon the Red Book standard. This

book deﬁnes two sub-modes: Mode 1 & Mode 2; and

provides for a third layer of error correction code over

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