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...homes with television sets also have VCRs, generating nearly $10 billion in annual videotape rentals in a market that did not exist 20 years ago. The compact disc rejuvenated the recorded-music industry, winning new listeners for both Mozart and Jimi Hendrix, just as the CD-ROM promises to turn home computers into powerful outlets for entertainment...
...changed. We moved from the record to the CD-ROM age and you can tell," Gabai says. "It was a hippie crowd back then and now the crowd is still funky, but more sophisticated...
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...