In 1985 it released the first computer encyclopedia, Grolier's Academic American Encyclopedia.

Grolier's earlier CD-ROM encyclopedia was not multimedia.

Grolier's 1985 Academic American Encyclopedia on CD-ROM was text-only.

Much of the activity at Grolier's under Cairnie's management was of the social kind: visitors lounged on a red couch while sharing drinks with the owners.

Despite the Grolier's fame in poetry circles — a 75th anniversary celebration by the Poetry Society of America drew a crowd of over 800 people, and Grolier's is listed as a " poetry landmark " by the Academy of American Poets — Solano announced in 2004 that, having lost money for the previous two years, the Grolier would be sold.

The causes of the shop's troubles are numerous: a rise in Internet bookselling that made it easier to find rare titles online, increasing store theft, rising rent from the Grolier's landowner ( Harvard University ), a growth in university-centered, as opposed to community-centered, creative writing opportunities, and the rise of chain stores in the Harvard Square area that have reduced the area's attractiveness to the Grolier's target market.

It had a strong presence among the under-six demographic, the target of Grolier's direct mail-to-the-home business.

Bookbinding showing Grolier's supralibros Io.

This was the first and by far the smallest of these collections, since at that time the game was distributed on 720k disks ; subsequent releases were on 1. 44mb disks then CD-ROM.

* The file system and data structures for the first consumer CD-ROM.

* Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven-Limited Edition ( 1998 ), a collector's edition of Might and Magic VI that included the first five games on CD-ROM as well.

Two years later, just before the sequel was due to be released, the first game was re-released on PC CD-ROM.

The first official release under the name of The Residents was in 1972, and the group has since released over sixty albums, numerous music videos and short films, three CD-ROM projects and ten DVDs.

Freak Show also served as the name for a CD-ROM released by the Voyager Company on January 1994, shortly after Laurie Anderson's first multimedia CD-ROM experiment, Puppet Motel.

Far Future Enterprises has reprinted the first edition of Twilight 2000 in hardcopy ( paper ) format, and both the first edition and version 2. 2 are available in CD-ROM format.

The first type is a miniaturized regular UPS that is made small enough to fit into a 5. 25-inch CD-ROM slot bay of a regular computer chassis.

Introduced as the Macintosh Plus, it was the first Macintosh model to include a SCSI port, which launched the popularity of external SCSI devices for Macs, including hard disks, tape drives, CD-ROM drives, printers, and even monitors.

It was the first version of Visual C ++ that came only on CD-ROM.

Djupa andetag was one of the very first Swedish albums to be released as a combined audio-video CD-ROM, including interviews with Lyngstad, footage from the making of the album, as well as promotional videos.

A DVD and CD-ROM of all articles of the first twenty-nine years has been released.

The Sound Blaster Pro was the first Creative sound card to have a built-in CD-ROM interface.

An electronic version of the encyclopedia for Macintosh and Windows computers first appeared in 1990, but didn't have as much impact as the only other CD-ROM encyclopedia available at that time, Academic American Encyclopedia.

The ProQuest brand name was first used for databases on CD-ROM.

In 1999 ProQuest acquired Chadwyck-Healey, a one-time microfilm publishing company that was one of the first to produce full-text CD-ROM databases.

The first CD-ROM yearbook was created by students at South Eugene High School in 1990.

In 1995 the first CD-ROM was released as " FishBase 100 ".

Meanwhile, in the face of competition from rivals such as Encarta, the latest Britannica was digitized by its publishers, and sold first as a CD-ROM and later as an online service.

* the use of digital media: MLDs were among the first dictionaries to appear on CD-ROM, with the Longman Interactive English Dictionary leading the way in 1993.

MacAddict was the first North American magazine focused on the Macintosh to include a CD-ROM with every issue.

The first commercial reference software products were reformulations of existing content into CD-ROM editions, often supplemented with new multimedia content, including compressed video and sound.

He also implemented the Logo programming language for the Commodore Amiga, managed the software OS development for CDTV, one of the first CD-ROM TV set-top boxes, and wrote the OS for Viscorp Ed, one of the first Internet TV set-top boxes.

Four years after the publication of The History Of England, the first volume of Trevelyan's Queen Anne trilogy appeared.

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

Aug. 4, 1821, nearly a century after Benjamin Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Gazette -- a century during which it had undergone several changes in ownership and a few brief suspensions in publication -- this paper made its first appearance as the Saturday Evening Post.

The sequence of events leading to his important discovery still remains ambiguous but it seems that one of the advanced students at the university related that the first direct event that led to the publication of Oersted's discovery occurred during a private lecture made before a group of other advanced students in the spring of 1820.

They are the only poems that he rearranged as a group between their first appearance ( in Satires Of Circumstance ) and the publication of the Collected Poems.

The first section of this publication appeared in 1948 and the last supplement in 1960.

One of the very best is only now published in this country, five years after its first publication in England.

Since then and during the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11 pm on the night of the awards.

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

Note: This list is limited to linguists who have worked specifically on the Altaic problem since the publication of the first volume of Ramstedt's Einführung in 1952.

An advance may be paid in two lump sums: the first payment on contract signing, and the second on delivery of the completed manuscript or on publication.

The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.

The first ' modern ' publication of Alcaeus ' verses appeared in a Greek and Latin edition of fragments collected from the canonic nine lyrical poets by Michael Neander, published at Basle in 1556.

His first chemical publication appeared in 1764.

It was the first publication to focus solely on role-playing games.

Visitors were first attracted to Aberfoyle and the surrounding area after the publication of The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott in 1810.

Kirk who provided the first translation into Gaidhlig of the Book of Psalms, however, he is better remembered for the publication of his book " The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies " in 1691.

Living first in Philadelphia, then seeking refuge close in Virginia, he wrote a book entitled The Prospect Before Us ( read and approved by Vice President Jefferson before publication ) in which he called the Adams administration a " continual tempest of malignant passions " and the President a " repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor ".

These lectures are listed by date of delivery, with date of first publication given separately if different.

The phrase " black-letter law " was used in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court case Naglee v. Ingersoll, 7 Pa. 185 ( 1847 ), almost 50 years before the first publication of Black's.

The publication of the results was delayed and Balard published his results first.

2002 tells the story of the first publication and many editions.

However, it appears to be the first use of the word bunyip in a written publication.

Bartók's economic difficulties during his first years in America were mitigated by publication royalties, teaching and performance tours.

Its first publication was the Abridged Bliss Classification ( ABC ), intended for school libraries.