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- From: larry@lablues.UUCP (Lawrance A. Schneider)
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- Subject: Re: CD-ROM usage
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- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 17:20:46 EST
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- Philip McDunnough has scribed the following eloquent missive:
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- |The lack of a search engine for CD-ROM's on the GS means that you will
- |simply not get any of these things for the GS. It's too bad as the GS
- |is a natural here. You'd really have to switch to another pltaform or
- |even a game console. The GS's strong point is multimedia. This is also
- |the area where it is standing still. Hyperstudio is great and laser
- discs
- |will go a long ways, but the lack of CD-ROM software will very quickly
-
- |have a serious negative impact on the platform. Even worse, should
- Apple
- |drop the GS as an option for educational purchases then the short term
-
- |future will be bleak indeed. I can only assume that things are
- wherever
- |Hyperstudio and the VOC are. One can have years of useful time with
- the GS,
- |but we are probably talking about a platform frozen in time. CD-ROM
- |represents a very important medium. In a way, it will herald in a
- whole
- |new generation of applications (especially for children).
- |
- |On option is to get a CDTV/CD-I unit and hook it up through a VOC.
- This
- |will get you the encyclopedias,etc...and much more.
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- Phil, what is required for the "search engine?" What is a "CDTV/CD-I?"
- It does seem worthy of note that there is no such "engine;" why hasn't
- Roger Wagner written such for Hyper Studio? I would think it would be
- a natural?!?!? My literate daughter (unlike me - besides, she's
- pretty)
- could really use such an item and the ease of research for school
- projects
- is obvious. Larry
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