Compact Disc technology was co-developed by Sony as an outgrowth of audio compact disc technology introduced in the early 1980s. Adapting the same basic technology used to store music in the form of 1s and 0s, CD-ROM discs can be used to store a variety of information from word processing documents to graphics to digital photographs.
 CD-ROM discs are a "read only" storage device with the data pressed into the disc in the manufacturing process much like the groves in an LP record, making them perfect for distribution of data which does not need to change.
CD-Recordable (CD-R) discs, developed from the CD-ROM standard to permit recording to the disc by the user, utilize a "write once" recording technology. Data can be written to the disc but not erased. CD-ReWritable (CD-RW) discs take the technology one step further by allowing the user to write, erase, and rewrite data to the disc thousands of times.
 The current lineup of Sony CD-RW drives offer a wide selection of features and configurations and provide high speed recording of CD-RW and CD-R discs and playback of CD-ROM discs.
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