The Next Wave of CD ROM Technology Advances
James S Derkve notes CD ROMs have become standard in PCs after a decade. Future devices will erase the read only memory limits with writable, high capacity discs. By next year affordable writeable drives appear, replacing older double speed and avoiding the 3X era’s decline.
Multimedia CD ROMs reshape home computing in the mid 90s
A survey of CD ROM software highlights Encarta 95 and Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia 1995 edition, with dictionaries, maps, audio, and video. It notes rising storage capacity to 3.3 GB per disk, foreshadowing VHS replacement by high speed drives and broadband networks, and discusses Intel Pentium chips and early replacement policies amid math errors.
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Microsoft Corp
Compton
Newmedia Inc
Encarta
Compton’s
Patrick Stewart
Peter H. Lewis
New York Times
HarperCollins
United States
Microsoft
Dooley Wilson
National Basketball Association
Alan Abdelnaby
Fréd Zollner
New York Hakoahs
Meehan
Happy Chance
Alaska
Intel
Mark Edelstone
Prudential Securities Inc
San Francisco
IBM
AST
Dell
Compaq
Gateway 2000
James S. Derk
The
Evansville Courier
Courier Online
JDERK
Evansville
Celestial Maps and Phaistos Disk Tale Appears in Night Sky Notes
A quirky 10230 Sunday sky feature discusses a Taurus star group and a 1908 Phaistos Disk interpretation amid amateur archaeology, mapping the horizon and zenith for stargazers. The piece notes a late night 10:39 p.m. observation and hints at cultural ties to solar positions.
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Taurus
Phaistos
Crete
Lean Pomera
Gainin Almanaci
Mor
KL Pravin
Astonomer Emerius
Hayden Planetarium
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Mars
Moon
Penguin Dictionary of Astronomy
CDROM
Expert Software Inc
People
People Magazine
Simpson
O.J
Bart
Wallis
Playboy
IBM Multimedia
Ansel Adams
Malcolm X
Vladimir Nabokov
Myst Brodelund
City of Els
Time-Warner Interactive
Los Angeles
Access Software Inc
Brian Keith
Margot Kidder
James Earl Jones
Australia
Wollemi Pines
David Noble
Australian National Parks and Wildlire Service
Noble
New York Times News Servic
Sattar
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Isaac Newton
Canary Islands
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