Re: Somewhat OT question about CD-ROM speeds

Norm Dresner wrote:
> We've all seen CD-ROMs spec'ed by speed as 2x, 4x, ... 56x and so on.  But
> what exactly are these numbers multiplying?  What does 1x really mean?  Is
> it some baseline bit/byte rate?
>
>     Norm

http://www.piesoftwareinc.co.uk/textonly/cdrom.html

Single speed is 150KBps as you can read in the article above...

Yves