第5章电子信息类专业英语(第二版)李白萍2015.pptVIP

Unit Eight Auxiliary Storage Unit Eight 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 informat