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 ...

The idea of packing an entire encyclopedia on a single compact disc has a magical, gee-whiz ring to it. And if the number of entries in the field is any indication, reference books on disc may well ...

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 ...