What is Encyclopedia Britannica 1997?

Encyclopaedia Britannica, the first friend of many a young researcher, has crammed several lifetimes of learning into its latest offering. For a whopping $150, you get 44 million words with 400,000 hyperlinks to 65,000 subjects, plus the standaard Web link. The one-disc info dump comes with an easy-to-use Netscape Navigator interface that lets you search by typing in standard questions instead of just “Find this and that but not that.” Nice.

However, the ultimate question goes unanswered: Why so few sounds, graphics, and movies? Look up the Beatles, and you’ll get a page of text but no pictures of John. Search on cats to find dozens of articles but no cute kittens with their paws draped over a laundry basket.

Which leaves us with a question you can't type into the CD’s search engine: Is any disc that lacks significant multimedia worth over a hundred bucks? We doubt it.

Echler, Nikki. (October 1997). CD-ROMs. MacAddict. (pg. 75).

Download Encyclopedia Britannica 1997 for Mac

Architecture

68K + PPC (FAT)

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.1

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver