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Darth_vader
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I remember seeing laserdiscs at Tower Records when I was a kid. They also had a couple racks of pre-recorded Mini Discs. (Remember those? That was where I got my MD's of Jackson's "Bad" and "Thriller" when I was about nine or ten years old.)
"Most of the laserdiscs the school had were produced by the publishers of the textbooks."
I got hold of a set of the old "Science Interactions" LDs, published by Glencoe McGraw Hill (who also published the books they tie in to) a few years back from the Junior High I attended. They started using some newer pedagogy and were going to throw them out. I still get them out and play them sometimes, for kicks.
They come packed in paper dust envelopes in a stiff cardboard box, like some multiple LP records were packaged, and there's a card with a bunch of barcodes printed on it. Apparently the idea behind that was you'd scan the particular barcode and the player would automatically jump to a certain section on the disc. (My player doesn't have that capability, and neither did the ones at school, for that matter!)
"Most of the laserdiscs the school had were produced by the publishers of the textbooks."
I got hold of a set of the old "Science Interactions" LDs, published by Glencoe McGraw Hill (who also published the books they tie in to) a few years back from the Junior High I attended. They started using some newer pedagogy and were going to throw them out. I still get them out and play them sometimes, for kicks.
They come packed in paper dust envelopes in a stiff cardboard box, like some multiple LP records were packaged, and there's a card with a bunch of barcodes printed on it. Apparently the idea behind that was you'd scan the particular barcode and the player would automatically jump to a certain section on the disc. (My player doesn't have that capability, and neither did the ones at school, for that matter!)