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CD ROM: The New Papyrus PSS ID Number: Q11903 Article last modified on 09-22-1986 PSS database name: PRESS

CD ROM: THE NEW PAPYRUS Edited by Steve Lambert and Suzanne Ropiequet Paperback: $21.95 ISBN: 0-914845-74-8 Pages: 640 Pub. Date: March 4, 1986

Microsoft Press Releases First Trade Book on CD ROM Technology

Microsoft Press today released CD ROM: THE NEW PAPYRUS, a compendium of newly commissioned articles written by leading CD ROM authorities, covering all aspects of this important new technology. This compendium of 44 articles provides an in-depth and instructive overview. It is a book for the experienced professional as well as for the newcomer. Starting with an overview of the CD system, the book goes on to cover product design considerations, authoring and development, production and manufacturing, the relationship of CD ROM publishing to traditional publishing, and CD ROM applications under development today. Some of these include general reference, library, legal, medical, geographical, research, and archival applications. In addition, 19 of the book’s contributors spoke at the Microsoft-sponsored First International Conference on CD ROM which was held in Seattle at the beginning of March. Two of the 44 articles are reprints from periodicals. “As We May Think,” written by Vannevar Bush (1890-1974), and originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1945, is of special historical interest. In this article, Bush- the developer of the differential analyzer and the first electronic analog computer–writes of his vision of a new technology that is now being realized in CD ROM. Other notable contributors include William H. Gates, Chairman of Microsoft Corporation, Robert Carr, Director of Technology of the Forefront Development Center at Ashton-Tate, Philippe Kahn, Founder and President of Borland International, Rockley Miller, Editor of the Videodisc Monitor, Gerald Lowell, Chief of Cataloging Distribution Services, Library of Congress, and Walter Boyne, Director of the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institute. Microsoft Corporation, based in Redmond, Washington, develops and sells a wide range of operating systems, languages, application programs, and hardware products, as well as books, for the microcomputer marketplace.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1986.