{"id":2432,"date":"2010-04-22T22:41:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T05:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2010-04-22T22:45:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T05:45:24","slug":"discis-cd-roms-for-apple-macintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/discis-cd-roms-for-apple-macintosh\/","title":{"rendered":"Discis CD-ROMs For Apple Macintosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember CD-ROMs? They were totally gonna revolutionize computer technology, owing to the fusion of video, audio, text, and interactivity. Or some such. It sounded like a good idea at the time and the concept commanded an impressive premium. The reason I bring this up is because I recently scavenged several in a series of outlandishly expensive CD-ROM storybooks published for the Apple Macintosh computers circa 1990. By outlandishly expensive, I mean in the range of $70-$85 per disc (about $110-$130 in today&#8217;s dollars).<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/scary-poems-for-rotten-kids-jewel-front.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Scary Poems For Rotten Kids\" width=\"275\" height=\"265\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2434\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/thomas-snowsuit-jewel-front.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Thomas&#039; Snowsuit\" width=\"275\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2435\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not usually interested in collecting very old Mac software; the only reason I snatched these up was because of the ridiculous prices on the front of each. The thrift store had forgotten to mark its own price tags on these CD-ROMs and the cashier was tempted to charge me the full $70-$85 for each disc until I gently reminded him that it was unlikely that any single item in the entire store was priced that high. We settled on a dollar each. <\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/a-long-hard-day-on-the-ranch-jewel-front.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A Long Hard Day On The Ranch\" width=\"275\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2437\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cinderella-the-original-fairy-tale-jewel-front.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cinderella: The Original Fairy Tale\" width=\"275\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2438\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>One of these CD-ROMs came with a vintage Apple business card, someone who held the position of &#8220;Account Executive &#8211; Education&#8221;, at an address I don&#8217;t recognize (i.e., not at Infinite Loop in Cupertino). Makes me wonder if the office predates the main Cupertino campus. Digital archaeology is a young science.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/paper-bag-princess-jewel-front.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Paper Bag Princess\" width=\"275\" height=\"269\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2439\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Tablet computers seem set to run with the interactive torch; Apple&#8217;s tablet computer leads the way for now. I wonder if the latest innovations in interactive applications on such devices will seem quaintly ridiculous in 10-20 years?<\/p>\n<p>For search engines&#8217; benefit, these are the titles: <!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munsch<\/li>\n<li>Thomas&#8217; Snowsuit by R. Munsch and M. Martchenko<\/li>\n<li>A Long Hard Day on the Ranch by Audrey Nelson<\/li>\n<li>Cinderella: The Original Fairy Tale<\/li>\n<li>Scary Poems For Rotten Kids by Sean Ohuigin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found some ludicrously expensive, 20 year old interactive storybook CD-ROMs for the Apple Macintosh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/2445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}