It’s a pity there aren’t more good science CD-ROMs. These information warehouses, with their huge storage capacity for text, pictures, and software, offer virtually unlimited multimedia possibilities- ...

Journal of Science Education and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Sep., 1996), pp. 203-215 (13 pages) Learning chemistry requires students to relate chemical equations and other symbolic notation both to ...

The Way Things Work 2.0 is based on the best-selling book by David Macaulay. This clever program shows how more than 200 machines work, the scientific principles behind them and the inventors who made ...

Believe it or not, back in the 1990s, a lot of people thought CD-ROMs were going to the change the world. We were wrong, of course, and with the rise of the World Wide Web, most people have now long ...

For any parent who has had to wash bright Crayola colors off their walls, the Crayola Art CD-ROMs are as welcome as industrial-strength sandpaper. In addition to vibrant colors, these CD-ROMs have ...

Time to back up the porn collection, folks. According to IBM engineer Kurt Gerecke says that data burned to homemade CD-ROMs lasts two years on average, and that’s only if you keep it in a ...

Unlike today, it didn't always seem retro to put a compact disc in a computer in order to find information — three decades ago, in fact, it seemed very cutting edge. As the CBC's Fred Langan reported ...