After placing the CD in a CD-ROM drive, one can browse through the files and play a QuickTime movie file containing fourteen minutes of footage from the Disney Channel concert special "Weird Al" Yankovic: (There's No) Going Home.
But just $600 could buy a full PC, with a CD-ROM drive, a bigger monitor and so on.
For $1,200, you get a great-looking machine with a 20-gigabyte hard drive and a CD-ROM drive.
The system includes a 15-inch monitor, a CD-ROM drive, Boston Acoustics speakers and a free year of America Online.
Try cleaning your drives with a CD-ROM drive cleaning kit (available at most computer stores) to remove any debris that might be lurking inside.
ViewSonic sells a ViewPad Dock for $299 that adds a CD-ROM drive plus VGA, PS/2, serial and parallel ports and other amenities found on desktop computers.
"Nearly all PC's sold in the U.S. today come with a CD-ROM drive, the majority of them with a CD-RW drive as well".
Other features include a CD-ROM drive that tucks under the 15-inch flat-panel monitor and a built-in 56K modem.
It lacks both a CD-ROM drive and a hard drive and is built in a way that makes it impossible to add either device.
It has a 4.3-gigabyte hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, a 56K modem, speakers, a 15-inch color monitor and Microsoft software including word processing and spreadsheets.
It comes with a 1.7-gigahertz Celeron processor, 128 megabytes of RAM, a 40-gigabyte hard drive, a 15-inch flat-panel screen and a CD-ROM drive, all for $999.
