CDROM DRIVES: TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY AND FUTURE TRENDS

Technology Update is a new feature in Online and CDROM Review, freshly researched for each issue by editorial staff at Learned Information. Its aim is to keep our readers right up to date with trends in search‐related hardware and software on the international market. In this first feature, we first consider four factors that are bound to influence the price/performance of CDROM drives during 1993. Then we give a round‐up of what four major manufacturers have to offer at the time of our going to press.