电子信息类专业英语（西电第二版）Unit 5 Auxiliary Storage.pptVIP

Unit 5 Auxiliary Storage Unit 5 Auxiliary Storage Passage A CD and CD-ROM Passage B Hard Disks and Optical Disks Passage C Introduction to CD-ROM Passage A CD and CD-ROM 　　A compact disc (CD) is a laser-read (also termed “optically read”) data storage device on which audio, video, or textual material can be stored. Although it has been used primarily to record stereophonic sound and has supplanted the long-playing PHONOGRAPH record as the principal medium for music storage, it offers a huge potential as the medium for the storage of massive amounts of many types of information.[1]