Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!decwrl!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!srgenprp!rons From: rons@sr.hp.com (Ron Stewart) Subject: Re: Groliers vs. Software Toolworks Encyclopedias Sender: news@srgenprp.sr.hp.com (News Administrator) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 23:38:42 GMT References: Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9.4] Lines: 19 George I. Fenton (fenton@neon.afsac.wpafb.af.mil) wrote: : rudnick@biomed.med.yale.edu (Gary Rudnick) writes: : >Does anyone know the difference between the version of Groliers encyclopedia : >that came packaged with my Sound Blaster 16 ASP card as a Software Toolworks : >encyclopedia and the version currently being sold by Groliers? Is it just the : >date or is there a difference in the scope or interface? : I believe the Creative Labs/Software Toolworks is not as indepth as Groliers : Encyclopedia. --GIF I have the 1992 Groliers that I bought as an upgrade to my Software Toolworks Dos only encyclopedia. I just bought the double speed Creative Labs upgrade and one of the discs was the 1992 Software Toolworks encyclopedia. The two disks are identical. I've seen the 1992 Software Toolworks disc at the local computer show for as low as $21.00. Ron Stewart Santa Rosa, Calif.