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Techno-phobes
Table of Contents
Part 1
Techno-geeks: A short but lively history
Q: What is a CD-ROM and how does it work?
Q: What does LCP use CD-ROMs for and why should I care?
Notes on proper caring and feeding of Techno-geeks
Q: How does LCP benefit by producing CD products?
Q: Is LCP a book and CD-ROM publishing company?
Part 2
Welcome to the Techno-phobes evening of championship boxing featuring some of the greatest fights of all time
CD-ROM Drives v. Hard Drives
Juke Box v. The CD Tower
"Disc" v. "Disk"
Currency" v. "Currentness"
CD-ROM Development v. Production
Part 3
Part 4
How a CD-ROM disc is created and other mysterious voodoo
"A prototyping we shall go, a prototyping we shall go, hi ho the merry-o . . ."
Q: What is Source Acquisition (Which, strangely enough, rhymes with Spanish Inquisition)?
Q: What are the three most common places that Source Acquisition "mines" data?
Q: If I ask what OCR is, will I regret it?
Q: What happens when we have our books "triple keyed" (Redundancy for fun and profit)?
Q: OK, we've tagged all the text, so now what?
Q: What is "Parsing" and why should you not add it to your food?
Q: Where do all those pretty blue links come from and how do they work?
Q: What is a Folio Flat File and what if I like my files to be round?
Q: What is a .nfo and at this point who really cares?
Q: Yippee we're done! I'm so glad we don't have to do that again next month?
Part 5
"Who's Who" in CD-ROM development and production
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