For All Mankind - Sealed Collectible CD-Rom Rare OOP from original Voyager Co.
For All Mankind by Al ReinertSealed Collectible CD-Rom Rare OOP from original Voyager Production Release Multi Media CD-Rom Software Produced in the Mid-1990s by the Original Voyager Company One of the best developers of multimedia CD-ROMs that ever existed, Voyager Company, released dozens of high-quality educational CD-ROMs between 1993 and 2000 before being bought out by Learn Technologies, which then quietly went out of business sometime in 2002. This is one of their interactive CD-Roms for PC/Windows or MAC. This CD-ROM is based on the Academy Award nominated documentary film about the Apollo missions by Al Reinert, For All Mankind. Between 1968 and 1972 twenty-four astronauts left this planet for the moon. This is the story of their voyage to the moon, captured on their film and in their own words. Assembled from eighty hours of interviews and a warehouse of NASA film, this seventy-nine minute film tells the story of the first extraterrestrial humans. It is a composite portrait, from liftoff to splashdown, of the Apollo missions. In addition to the film, this CD-ROM includes lunar maps, illustrations, astronaut biographies, mission histories and transcripts of communications with ground control. For All Mankind features the entire 79 minute film, an extensive interview with film maker Al Reinert, accounts of every manned Apollo mission, maps of lunar landing sights, diagrams of spacecraft and equipment, and an original soundtrack in 16-bit surround sound. For All Mankind is as entertaining as it is educational! Technical requirements for Voyager's CD-Roms Windows: 486SX-33 or higher processor; 640 x 480, 256 color display; 8 MB RAM MPC2-compatible CD-ROM drive and sound card with speakers or headphones; Microsoft Windows 3.1 (TM); MS-DOS 5.0 or higher. Macintosh: Any Macintosh (25-MHz 68030 processor or better); System 7 or higher; 5,000K of available RAM; 13" color monitor; double-speed CD-ROM drive.______________________________________________________________________________________________________The Voyager collection of CD-ROMs represents an era that is fading into oblivion. Due to a lack of computer systems still capable of executing this software, Voyager products that are still available in the original sealed packaging have significant historical value for collectors only.The following discussion of CD-ROM technology and its preservation is found in The International Journal of Digital Curation; Volume 7, Issue 2 | 2012: Virtual CD-ROM CollectionsAlthough the Voyager CD-ROMs have substantial historical significance, they, and most other published CD-ROMs, are destined to have a dwindling user base whose expertise in the systems required to use them is in sharp decline. The physical machines required to execute them have already disappeared from most educational institutions and even the operating systems are increasingly hard to find; at Indiana University, which once had many hundreds of ?classic macs?, only one person within our University IT Services had distribution disks of the corresponding operating system software. The physical copies of these CD-ROMs are disappearing from library shelves. In seeking examples for this paper we made extensive use of interlibrary loan and we found that many cataloged copies of Voyager CD-ROMs are either missing or damaged.The long-term probability for individual libraries providing physical access to the Voyager and other published CD-ROMs is nearly nil. The user base is dwindling, the existing hardware and software support disappearing, and the physical media degrading. While we believe these materials have substantial historical significance, their ultimate survival depends upon spreading the preservation burden across many institutions through a virtual collection that enables networked access for a sparsely distributed base of patrons using modern work-stations.
Specifications
| Return Shipping Will Be Paid By | Buyer |
| All Returns Accepted | Returns Accepted |
| Item Must Be Returned Within | 30 Days |
| Refund Will Be Given As | Money Back |
| Format | CD-Rom |
| For Operating Systems | Windows and/or MAC |
| Country/Region Of Manufacture | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Studio | Cityrom Voyager |
| Brand | Voyager Cityrom |
| Type | History |
For All Mankind by Al ReinertSealed Collectible CD-Rom Rare OOP from original Voyager Production Release Multi Media CD-Rom Software Produced in the Mid-1990s by the Original Voyager Company One of the best developers of multimedia CD-ROMs that ever existed, Voyager Company, released dozens of high-quality educational CD-ROMs between 1993 and 2000 before being bought out by Learn Technologies, which then quietly went out of business sometime in 2002. This is one of their interactive CD-Roms for PC/Windows or MAC. This CD-ROM is based on the Academy Award nominated documentary film about the Apollo missions by Al Reinert, For All Mankind. Between 1968 and 1972 twenty-four astronauts left this planet for the moon. This is the story of their voyage to the moon, captured on their film and in their own words. Assembled from eighty hours of interviews and a warehouse of NASA film, this seventy-nine minute film tells the story of the first extraterrestrial humans. It is a composite portrait, from liftoff to splashdown, of the Apollo missions. In addition to the film, this CD-ROM includes lunar maps, illustrations, astronaut biographies, mission histories and transcripts of communications with ground control. For All Mankind features the entire 79 minute film, an extensive interview with film maker Al Reinert, accounts of every manned Apollo mission, maps of lunar landing sights, diagrams of spacecraft and equipment, and an original soundtrack in 16-bit surround sound. For All Mankind is as entertaining as it is educational! Technical requirements for Voyager’s CD-Roms Windows: 486SX-33 or higher processor; 640 x 480, 256 color display; 8 MB RAM MPC2-compatible CD-ROM drive and sound card with speakers or headphones; Microsoft Windows 3.1 (TM); MS-DOS 5.0 or higher. Macintosh: Any Macintosh (25-MHz 68030 processor or better); System 7 or higher; 5,000K of available RAM; 13″ color monitor; double-speed CD-ROM drive.______________________________________________________________________________________________________The Voyager collection of CD-ROMs represents an era that is fading into oblivion. Due to a lack of computer systems still capable of executing this software, Voyager products that are still available in the original sealed packaging have significant historical value for collectors only.The following discussion of CD-ROM technology and its preservation is found in The International Journal of Digital Curation; Volume 7, Issue 2 | 2012: Virtual CD-ROM CollectionsAlthough the Voyager CD-ROMs have substantial historical significance, they, and most other published CD-ROMs, are destined to have a dwindling user base whose expertise in the systems required to use them is in sharp decline. The physical machines required to execute them have already disappeared from most educational institutions and even the operating systems are increasingly hard to find; at Indiana University, which once had many hundreds of ?classic macs?, only one person within our University IT Services had distribution disks of the corresponding operating system software. The physical copies of these CD-ROMs are disappearing from library shelves. In seeking examples for this paper we made extensive use of interlibrary loan and we found that many cataloged copies of Voyager CD-ROMs are either missing or damaged.The long-term probability for individual libraries providing physical access to the Voyager and other published CD-ROMs is nearly nil. The user base is dwindling, the existing hardware and software support disappearing, and the physical media degrading. While we believe these materials have substantial historical significance, their ultimate survival depends upon spreading the preservation burden across many institutions through a virtual collection that enables networked access for a sparsely distributed base of patrons using modern work-stations.
