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...finest old manuscripts are no longer the exclusive domain of scholars and wealthy collectors. Now, thanks to Octavo Corp. of Palo Alto, Calif., anyone with a computer and CD-ROM drive can enjoy priceless works by Galileo, Shakespeare, Ben Franklin and other greats exactly as they appear in the originals--complete with watermarks, worn pages and wormholes. Says Richard Kuhta, librarian of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington: "You can do everything but smell the book." What's more, readers can instantly search these digital copies, unlike the originals, to find a word or phrase. Co-founded by Adobe Systems...
...plugged power cords into the backs of each computer and the printer, attached the sandwich-size adapters to the opposing ends and plugged them into regular electrical outlets. (The $150 kit also came with extra power strips.) He then installed the software, provided on one CD-ROM, into both PCs. "This was definitely something we were looking for," he says of the new system. "We wanted to be able to share Internet access, transfer documents without having to save them first on floppies, and save large files from one machine to the zip drive we had connected to the other...
...marshals dressed in SWAT gear, and four suits from the Interactive Digital Software Association, a sort of Pinkerton agency for games manufacturers. The marshals have a warrant. Can they come in and look at his game collection? McLaughlin, it transpires, has been making copies of more than 250 CD-ROM game titles for the Sony PlayStation. He's been selling them via his website, hundreds a week, at $20 a pop--around 60% off the cover price. Fast-forward to last month, and McLaughlin cuts a deal, pays a large fine and makes a very public apology. And the forces...
Glenshaw also served as executive director of the development team for Encarta Africana, a Microsoft CD-ROM on the African diaspora...
...Glenshaw also served as executive director of the development team for Encarta Africana, a Microsoft CD-ROM on the African diaspora...