Spending $100 on a cd-rom encyclopedia may not be as agonizing as making the first payment on a 22-volume World Book installment plan. But it is still a significant investment, especially for anyone ...

All the blue-sky, high-tech talk about ”electronic information networks” and the coming of a ”paperless society” really becomes meaningful and exciting, when you take Grolier`s KnowledgeDisc for a ...

Jiminy Crickett had it right. Before “Sesame Street,” before educational TV, before CD-ROM, the tiny, dapper insect was hopping around the TV screen sneaking information into kids’ minds under the ...

The first Mac my family bought came with a pack of CD-ROMs; I know, I am a young whippersnapper. Myst was there, as was the The Daedalus Encounter, and I sank plenty of time into each, despite not ...

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.