I Miss Microsoft Encarta

Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta by cr0sh on Monday August 19, 2019 @07:38PM (#20742691)

There were earlier systems in the 1980s that combined PCs (or equivalent machines) with Pioneer LaserDisc systems (which could be controlled via a serial port) - a somewhat well known one was the BBC Domesday Project:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project

An early glimpse of the future, somewhat.

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Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta by duxup on Monday August 19, 2019 @08:59PM (#20743018)

Man what a mess of a project that was.

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Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta by billpg on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:15AM (#20745272)

If only they had waited ten or so years.

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