{"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":"

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’s dollars).<\/p>\n


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I’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


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One of these CD-ROMs came with a vintage Apple business card, someone who held the position of “Account Executive – Education”, at an address I don’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


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Tablet computers seem set to run with the interactive torch; Apple’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

For search engines’ benefit, these are the titles: <\/p>\n

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  • The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munsch<\/li>\n
  • Thomas’ Snowsuit by R. Munsch and M. Martchenko<\/li>\n
  • A Long Hard Day on the Ranch by Audrey Nelson<\/li>\n
  • Cinderella: The Original Fairy Tale<\/li>\n
  • Scary Poems For Rotten Kids by Sean Ohuigin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t