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To: Dave Hanson who wrote (5924)2/5/1999 7:50:00 PM
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>>Brittanica

According to my literature (which I've had rained on me,
owning the 98 version), the DVD and multimedia CD rom edition
are the same, except, of course, for swapping CDs in the
CDrom version. I figured out how to avoid that last year;
I'm guessing not much has changed. It didn't look like
a security measure but a convenience one. If you get
it and are curious I can give more details.

Original Britannica CD cost upwards of $1000 and had a dongle
with virtually no pictures (for a laugh, the Americana had
zero pictures -- country flags were presented by descriptive
text! Hard to believe. Shameful, too).

Looks like they've seen the light of the $-sign glowing in
the consumer tunnel instead of pandering to their
book-and-bookcase sales force.
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