Short for DVD-Rewritable, a re-recordable DVD format similar to DVD+RW. The data on a DVD-RW disc can be erased and recorded over numerous times without damaging the medium. DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM are supported by Panasonic, Toshiba, Apple Computer, Hitachi, NEC, Pioneer, Samsung, and Sharp.
This Day In Tech History
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
-Popular Mechanics, March 1949More Tech History
Hysteria over the Michelangelo virus is fueled by the media, convincing users that 1/4 of the world's hard drives would be overwritten.
Apple vs Microsoft is dismissed.
Intel announces their new processor will be called Pentium.
Development of the Mosaic web browser begins.
The text based web browser Lynx is released.
id Software releases Wolfenstein 3D, the original first person shooter.
Sun Microsystems completes the prototype for the Star7, one of the earliest touch screen tablets.