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From: blob@apple.com (Brian Bechtel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Available CD-ROMs for Macintosh
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Date: 13 Jun 89 14:06:02 GMT
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In article <32391@apple.Apple.COM> jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway) writes:
         Books in Print Plus, 770,000 book citations
                 Bowker Electronic Publishing, New York, NY
        ClubMac, Quantum Access Inc, fonts, stacks etc.
                 Quantum Access, Houston TX
         Miriam-Websters Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary
                 Highlighted Data, Falls Church, VA
includes pronunciation of most (all?) of the words.
         The Electronic Encyclopedia,
                 Groiler Electronic Publising, Danbury CN
         Time Table of Science and Innovation,
                 Xiphias, Mariana Del Ray CA
         Universe of Sounds
                 Optical Media International, Los Gatos CA

Boston Computer Society, Berkeley Mac User's Group(BMUG), and Educorp all 
sell CD-ROMs that have the typical selections of public-domain and 
shareware (aka "virusware") stuff. 

The Electronic Whole Earth Catalog is available from Broderbund, San 
Rafael, CA.  Reviews, Articles, samples of records, all the sorts of 
things that you remember from the printed versions.

Manhole by Activision.  A non-violent exploration of a world populated by 
rabbit, walrus, and dragon.

Facts On File News Digest by Facts On File, New York, NY.  The last 8 
years of Facts On File plus more than 500 details maps.

National Business Directory by Xiphias, Marina Del Rey, CA.  A national 
business directory with addresses and telephone numbers.

Ingram MicroD, the largest nationwide distributor of Macintosh software, 
has two separate collections of three CD-ROM titles for $249 per set.  The 
first set includes BMUG's PD-ROM, the Universe of Sounds by OMI, and a 
VideoWorks collection by MacroMind.  The second set includes Xiphias' 
National Business Directory, Multi-Ad Services' ProArt Trilogy, and 
Comstock Photography's Desktop Photography.  You also get a free Nimbus 
Records audio sampler with either package.

Developer Helper: Phil and Dave's Excellent CD is or will be available 
from APDA.  All the system software back to the 128K, all the foreign 
language software, all the peripherals software, tech notes, etc.  

Dr. Edward A. Fox at Virginia Tech has pressed a High Sierra CD and a A/UX 
CD.  Each contains a variety of things that you would find on the 
Internet.  For more information, contact him at Internet: 
fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu or BITNET: foxea@vtcc1.

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae contains most, if not all, ancient Greek 
literature.  Harvard has come up with a Hypercard stack to search this CD. 
 Contact me (blob@apple.com) if you want more information, as I don't have 
the addresses right in front of me.

There are lots and lots of in-house projects going on with CD-ROM, both at 
Apple and other companies.  Most of those never get mentioned outside the 
company involved, usually because the information is considered 
proprietary.

Finally, if you want to press your own CD, Disctronics will make a single 
CD using "a unique, patented process" for $500.  Many, many places will 
press CDs for ~$1500 mastering charge plus $2.00 per CD.

A new magazine, free for qualified subscribers, is "CD-ROM End User."  
Contact DDRI, 6609 Rosecroft Place, Falls Church, VA 22043 or (703) 
237-0682 for more information.

These are just the ones I could find in articles somewhere in my office.
I'm sure I missed some.  I've seen copies of, or personally possess,
all of the CDs mentioned.

--Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"