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From: vanover@bcsaic.UUCP (Jann VanOver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Desert Storm CD-ROM ?
Message-ID: <47082@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 91 18:49:43 GMT
References: <673653612.4@blkcat.FidoNet.Org>
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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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.
>
Ding Dong, you're wrong!  It IS out as a commercial product, lists at
$39.95.  Time/Warner had a booth at the Microsoft CD-ROM conference in
March and was advertising an April release date.  I picked up an order
form, but can't lay my hands on it just now.  If there's great interest,
I'll try to find it and post relevent address, phone numbers, etc.