Word: rom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While my report--which will soon be released by the National Endowment for the Arts as a hardcover book. Simon and Schuster as a trade paper-book, and Sega as a CD-ROM videogame--is extremely abstruse, banausic and completely irrelevant (the ABCs of any good scholarly report), there are certain interesting points covered within that might be of interest to a general reading public. I will quote parts of it, skipping over some of the more detailed analysis. Additionally, the section on Sharon Stone movies and mating rituals has been censored by the editors...
...creature was stirring -- except George Molnar and his mouse. Molnar, president of Midwest Business Systems, a Southfield, Michigan, computer outlet, had just brought home a top-of-the-line IBM clone -- one of those multimedia wonders that come preloaded with dozens of software titles and bedecked with a CD-ROM drive, stereo speakers and a way-too-big monitor. The machine was "a Cadillac," says Molnar, except for one thing: it was having trouble getting started. Molnar sat there, mouse in hand, pointing and clicking, trying to use his new library of 45 software programs. Only a dozen...
...last week, waiting to return a piece of software that wouldn't work. The family owns two late-model computers, IBM clones, so that both Nick, 14, and Zachary, 11, will always have a machine for marauding and avenging. A few weeks ago, their father bought them the CD-ROM game Front Page Sports Baseball '94, by Sierra Online. The game, which the boys opened Christmas Eve, couldn't be installed properly. Nick says he called Sierra's hot line "for five hours, once every five minutes" and kept getting a busy signal. Finally, unable to determine whether the fault...
...wild card in all this is the flood of new games published on CD-ROMs for personal computers. Having languished on computer-store shelves for nearly a decade, CD-ROM's for Macintosh and IBM-compatible PCs are suddenly taking off. "Trip got blindsided by CD-ROMs," says John Taylor, an analyst at L.H. Alton, a San Francisco-based investment firm. "People who bought PCs for all sorts of reasons are saying, 'I just spent $2,500 for my multimedia computer. Why should I spend $400 on a dedicated game machine...
...banking they treat you like a CD-ROM, turning you on and off," Abelli says. "In consulting, you're put in a pretty good position...a good consulting experience will teach you how to ask questions...