A look at the first ever audio CD containing an interactive multimedia computer program -- Beethoven's Ninth Symphony by Voyager in 1989 using Apple's HyperCard, running here on a Mac Classic with an external SCSI CD-ROM drive.
Time flow:
0:00 Introduction
0:38 SCSI CD-ROM drive
2:07 Installing the driver
4:19 Playing an audio CD
5:00 The first IMCD
7:09 HyperCard
9:39 A Pocket Guide
10:30 Beethoven's World
11:49 The Art of Listening
12:22 A Close Readng
13:26 The Ninth Game
19:27 Multimedia Beethoven
21:17 The 74-minute CD myth
22:37 Shut down
#beethoven #cdrom #mac
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