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From: jackb@MDI.COM (Jack Brindle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Desert Storm CD-ROM ?
Message-ID: <1991May8.164623.2492@MDI.COM>
Date: 8 May 91 16:46:23 GMT
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In article <673653612.4@blkcat.FidoNet.Org> Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f421.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org (Charlie Mingo) writes:
>SW>	In the just released issue of MacUser (June?), there are reviews of
>SW>CD-ROM drives, and capsule reviews of 27 disks.  One of the disks
>SW>mentioned is a chronology of Operation Desert Storm, based on coverage 
>SW>by the reporters for _Time_.  They said it was supposed to be released 
>SW>April 1991.  The disk is published by Warner New Media.
>SW>This is the first time I had heard of this.  Has anyone seen this
>SW>disk or heard any more about it?
>
>     Well, _Time_ itself had a blurb on it a week or two after the war was over.  
>It contains all the original correspondants' reports which were rewritten before 
>they appeared in _Time_, along with a lot of pictures, too.  The _Time_ blurb 
>showed it appearing on an Apple RGB monitor, so I presume it's a Mac product.
>
>    This is the kind of odd product which recently-formed conglomerates produce 
>to show stock analysists that there really _is_ some synergy in combining two 
>unrelated companies.   As I've never seen it on sale (or even advertised) 
>anywhere, I doubt this was put out as a commercial product.
>

For a "non-existant" product, there sure are a lot of folks carrying it. The
CDRom lists at $39.95. Educorp and Maya are both advertising it, at prices
below list. Time/Warner sent out a flyer on it to "known" CDRomers (how we
got to be "known" is anyone's guess). Looks like they are trying to follow
in CNN's footsteps and sell "we won the war" merchandise before it goes out
of vogue. But, for $30, it might be interesting to look at. Might be useful
to those doing reports on the Middle East situation as well.

Jack Brindle
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