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Britannica CD

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  • editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica
    In Encyclopædia Britannica: Britannica in the digital era

    …Britannica Electronic Index and the Britannica CD (providing text and a dictionary, along with proprietary retrieval software, on a single disc). A two-disc CD was released in 1995, featuring illustrations and photos; multimedia, including videos, animations, and audio, was added in 1997. At first the cost of those electronic products…

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  • illustration from Etymologiae
    In encyclopaedia: CD-ROM encyclopaedias

    …and that same year the Britannica CD was released with text supplemented by still illustrations and by Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.

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