CD-ROM

Developed by Royal Philips and Sony Corporation as defined in the "System Description Compact Disc Read Only Memory" ('Yellow Book') first published in 1984, with the first CD-ROM players introduced in 1985. The ECMA later published the specifications in the international standard ECMA-130 in July 1988. ISO and IEC then published the specifications in the international standard ISO/IEC 10149 in August 1989, with a second edition in July 1995. ECMA ratified these changes for the second edition of ECMA-130 in June 1996.

SEE ALSO

  • CD-ROM XACompact Disc Read Only Memory eXtended Architecture
  • CD BridgeCompact Disc Bridge
  • Photo CDPhoto Compact Disc
  • CD ExtraEnhanced Music CD (CD Extra, CD Plus)
  • Enhanced CDEnhanced Compact Disc
  • i-traxi-trax is a trademark for an early Enhanced CD format
  • Rainbow BooksThe set of all Compact Disc specifications developed by Philips and Sony