Transcript: Multimedia Revolution Part III -- CD-ROM Limitations

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LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: This week, we've been exploring the relatively new world of multimedia. We've discovered that at the heart of a successful multimedia production is the computer's ability to skip around in truly massive amounts of data and present that data for your eyes and ears in a fraction of a second. Multimedia allows you to move quickly from a text article on the '60s to a video of John Kennedy or to rocket down a narrow canyon blasting alien spacecraft. It takes a lot of computing power to handle all of the bits that create those images and sounds. And now cheaper storage devices like the compact disc and more powerful microprocessors ...

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