The Standard CD-ROM
stores about
550
MB
of information
.
The CD technology was developed in 1976 at
Philips
in The Netherlands, and at
Sony
in Japan. These
companies determined the first standard of digital storage on CD.
On one side of the CD the digital
information is recorded, in binary ("0"
and "1") form. The binary information
is coded into depressions (pits) on the
CD
The other side of the CD contains a
printed label with the information about
the CD, for human reading.
