July 1985 · Peripheral
Philips CM 100 (1985)
The first CD-ROM drive released to the public.
The CM 100 was introduced in July 1985 by Philips, two years after Sony and Philips defined the Yellow Book. It was sold to professional and library users with discs of reference data. It started the path to the multimedia PC era.
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Facts
- Date
- July 1985
- Kind
- Peripheral: Storage drive
- Maker or publisher
- Philips
- Platforms
- DOS
- Format
- Yellow Book CD-ROM
- Capacity
- about 650 MB
- Connection
- Proprietary interface
- Works with
- DOS
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- IBM PC/AT (works with, 1984)
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