Re: CD-ROM usage

[larry@lablues.UUCP (Lawrance A. Schneider)]

Philip McDunnough has scribed the following eloquent missive:

|The lack of a search engine for CD-ROM's on the GS means that you will
|simply not get any of these things for the GS. It's too bad as the GS
|is a natural here. You'd really have to switch to another pltaform or 
|even a game console. The GS's strong point is multimedia. This is also
|the area where it is standing still. Hyperstudio is great and laser 
discs
|will go a long ways, but the lack of CD-ROM software will very quickly 

|have a serious negative impact on the platform. Even worse, should 
Apple 
|drop the GS as an option for educational purchases then the short term 

|future will be bleak indeed. I can only assume that things are 
wherever 
|Hyperstudio and the VOC are. One can have years of useful time with 
the GS,
|but we are probably talking about a platform frozen in time. CD-ROM
|represents a very important medium. In a way, it will herald in a 
whole 
|new generation of applications (especially for children). 
| 
|On option is to get a CDTV/CD-I unit and hook it up through a VOC. 
This
|will get you the encyclopedias,etc...and much more.

Phil, what is required for the "search engine?"  What is a "CDTV/CD-I?"
It does seem worthy of note that there is no such "engine;" why hasn't
Roger Wagner written such for Hyper Studio?  I would think it would be
a natural?!?!?  My literate daughter (unlike me - besides, she's 
pretty)
could really use such an item and the ease of research for school 
projects
is obvious.                   Larry

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