Word: cd-rom
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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This week the Dutch electronics giant Philips will unveil its Compact Disc Interactive system, also called CD-I, a $1,000 computerized CD player that can be hooked up to a standard TV set to play all manner of games and run interactive programs. Five years in the making, the VCR-size unit joins CDTV, | a similar machine that was introduced by Commodore in January, and CD-ROM, a system for playing CDs on Apple and IBM-compatible personal computers. Even Nintendo has announced plans to attach a compact-disc drive to the latest version of its video-game machine...
...technology is called CD-ROM, for compact-disc read-only memory, and the disc can be "played," with the help of an attachment costing $400 to $900, on most personal computers. The TIME newsdisc, titled Desert Storm -- The War in the Persian Gulf, will include TIME stories and charts, scores of unpublished photographs, sound recorded from radio and TV, and files from our correspondents in the field. Users can call up different pieces of information at the click of a mouse. Says executive editor Dick Duncan: "It gives the reader-viewer a first raw cut of history...
Duncan and Warner New Media president Stan Cornyn initially conceived of putting the war on CD-ROM on Jan. 17, and within 24 hours Warner producer Linda Rich was in New York, collecting material and introducing our staff to the world of multimedia digital publishing. Working with TIME director of development David McGowan and researcher Nina Barrengos, she drew up a plan for the disc, began conversion of files and war photos to computer format and even tapped deputy chief of correspondents Barrett Seaman's telephone line to the gulf. In one conversation between Seaman and correspondent Scott MacLeod...