Detail map of 8, 2-chōme, Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku City, Tōkyō-to, Japan,Centrum, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

A: 8, 2-chōme, Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku City, Tōkyō-to, Japan, B: Centrum, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

Sony & Phillips Introduce the CD-ROM

1985

In 1985 Sony, Tokyo, Japan and Philips, Eindhoven, Netherlands, developed the "Yellow Book" standard, allowing the compact disc (CD) to hold any form of binary data.

This resulted in the creation of Compact Disc-Read Only Memory or pre-pressed compact discs containing data readable by a computer for data storage, but not writable to by the computer.  The CD-ROM format was compatable with the CD format introduced for music in 1982-83.

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