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Article: CD-ROM wows and boos of 1993. (compact disc ratings) (CD-ROM Commentaries)
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- Information Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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Looking back at the year behind us I made an inventory of the most important feats and the least impressive deeds of the CD-ROM marketplace in 1993. The list is not based on any formal survey. Rather, it is based on my own experiences as a columnist, teacher, and user who eats CD-ROMs for breakfast, attends many conferences, workshops, exhibitions, installs and uses any CD-ROM database that comes his way, talks to CD-ROM database publishers, software producers, hardware manufacturers, and teachers and preaches the technology to librarians and end-users alike.
There are some categories that are too broad and too subject-specific for me to handle fairly. For ...