This app is a cautionary example of becoming too enamoured with the
promise of technology. To access one of its 35,000 facts, you had to
insert the disk, wait for it to boot, and laboriously type in a
question (while following inconsistently enforced rules of
capitalization.) Meanwhile, to access any of over a million facts in
the 1985 World Almanac, you had only to pick it up and flip to the
right page ? with dozens of related facts only an eye-flick away.
Worse, Hippo's open-ended ask-me-a-question system gives the
impression that it knows a lot more than it does, leading quickly to
frustration.

The New York Times published [an entertaining review][1], two years
after the product was released, when their computer columnist dug the
disk out of his couch cushions. (The implied punchline: at the
library, he'll discover that the almanac spelled Stavisky wrong.)

Version: 1.1

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

  [1]: http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/10/science/personal-computers-back-from-the-garbage-briefly.html?pagewanted=all&pagewanted=print

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