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Limits RegistryPhilips and Sony released the CD-ROM 'Yellow Book' specification in 1985, adapting the audio compact disc to store about 650 MB of computer data with an extra layer of error correction. It was later standardized as ISO/IEC 10149 and became the standard software-distribution medium of the 1990s.
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Philips and Sony released the CD-ROM 'Yellow Book' specification in 1985, adapting the audio compact disc to store about 650 MB of computer data with an extra layer of error correction. It was later standardized as ISO/IEC 10149 and became the standard software-distribution medium of the 1990s.
The year the CD-ROM (Yellow Book) specification for storing computer data on compact discs was released.
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Limits Registry. LR-CD-ROM-STANDARD. First CD-ROM data standard (Yellow Book). 2026.