CD
Company: Sony & Philips
Launched: 1985
Capacity: 870 MiB
Bit rate: 150 KiB/s
The CD as a music format was launched in 1982 in Japan and worldwide in 1984.
The CD-ROM data format was established in 1985 by Sony and Philips and first introduced to the public at COMDEX that same year.
From the mid-1990s until its displacer by DVD-ROM, CD-ROM was widely used for software distribution for computers and video game consoles.
Personal computers equipped width CD
Manufacturer: IBM
Launches: 1997
Manufactured in US
CPU:
Intel Pentium
Memory: 16 MB ~ 128 MB
Support: Diskette 3½" DD
Support B: CD
Hard drive:
2147483647 MB
Operating system: Windows 95
The PC 300GL series used Celeron, Pentium I, Pentium II, and Pentium III processors throughout its lifespan. Celeron-based models had processors clocked at 333, 366, 433, 466, 500, or 533 MHz; Pentium I models had processors clocked at 133 or 166 MHz; Pentium II-based models had processors clocked at 350, 400, and 450 MHz; and Pentium III-based models had processors with clock speeds of 450, 500, 533, 550, 600, 667, 733, 800, or 866 MHz.
These systems came in two case types: desktop and microtower.
There were two variants of the desktop case, one with two expansion slots and the other with four. Both variants had four drive bays.
The microtower case had four expansion slots and four drive bays.
Manufacturer: IBM
Launches: 1997
Manufactured in US
CPU:
Intel Pentium
Memory: None
Support: Diskette 3½" DD
Support B: CD
Hard drive:
Operating system: Windows
The PC 300XL computer uses the Pentium MMX clocked at 233 MHz or the Pentium II clocked at 233, 266, or 300 MHz.
And it featured built-in 10/100 Ethernet.
