This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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>I asked someone there and got the answer: People don't want it. [Encyclopedia Britannica on CD-ROM] >In 1886 (I think) Carl Benz invented the first automobile. Noone wanted it. And back when silent films were the thing, one of the movie studio greats, Warner or Goldwyn perhaps, said "Who the…
MacWarehouse Deal
Message #52085
MacWarehouse and PCWarehouse are sister organizations and they are apparently spinning off a third, called CD-ROM Warehouse. There's a promotion on, in which they sell a double-speed, multi-session CD-ROM drive for $299. It's not a speed demon but it performs just fine and should work with Photo-CD, which is bound…
I have just purchased one of the MacWarehouse drives too. Haven't used it much ezxcept for the Grolier, which seemed to work fine. It seems to slow down the IIci that it's connected to. I have it at the end of a SCSI chain that includes an external hard drive…
Actually, here are the differences, in 1992 edition of Grolier: DOS version has video clips but no animations. Windows version has animations but no video clips. Mac version has both video clips and animations. (Video clips are short movies, e.g. Kennedy inaugural speech. Animations are annotated graphic sequences of e.g.…