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From: jimm@spectral.Berkeley.EDU (James Moseman)
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Subject: Re: DAK's CD-ROM package: anyone try it?
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Date: 6 Feb 91 20:21:00 GMT
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I tried it and have been reasonably happy with it.  One nice surprise was that
there was software which let me play audio CD's on it.  I haven't used the
encyclopedia much, but the Library of the Future is great.  The atlases were
a little disappointing in that I expected a finer degree of granularity, e.g.
the U.S. Atlas just goes to the level of a state, showing 2 or 3 major cities.

One gripe I did have was that the nice looking menu system to use all of this
didn't work.  Selecting an entry generated a script with a 'CALL' command 
which I don't have and wasn't included.  So I ended up figuring out what each
script was trying to to and doing it manually.  The installation procedure
was pretty easy aalthough there was a minor hangup which I was able to work
around and the details of which I don't recall offhand.

Jim Moseman
jimm@ctt.bellcore.com