Comments on: National Geographic Society Not So Environmentally Conscious

By: GEORGE

GEORGE — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:26:24 +0000

I have the same problem. There is supposed to be a 16-bit Quicktime to downland, but that is also causing problems. I bought my set at COSTCO, at the time I was buying a new 32-bit computer. I don’t think Costco knew what it was buying. I certainly did not!

By: Tim Arnold

Tim Arnold — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:38:13 +0000

I bought the 112 years for my Mom (1888 to 2000 – 32 CD’s [not DVD's]). Unfortunately CD # 2,8,16,18,24,28,30 and 32 have ‘Wavy’ lines through them and won’t play well, and #8 and 32 won’t play at all. Is there anybody willing to copy those 7 CD’s (I’ll gladly pay you for them!). My Mom is ecstatic abut the product but nobody sells them anymore…thanks.

By: Pyr0Beast

Pyr0Beast — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:17:36 +0000

I have this 1888-1997 DVD collection, my father paid for it about 200$ and it isnâ€™t working well since beginning. Troubles all the way. It wasnâ€™t working well on win 98 and it isnâ€™t working at all on Xp. So what now? Buying a newer version is not a option.
– For those keys, I think you can find â€˜em on on the right side of the Cd/dvd, or contact me @
pyr0beast(attt)gmail(dot)com

By: Sir Norman

Sir Norman — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 20:05:05 +0000

I have the 108 year set. Do any of you fine folks know how to put the entire set on ONE (1) hard drive? Having to take each cd out each time you want to look at something is not good when you have kids. I still think it’s the coolest thing to have.

[tags]How can you put the full set on One (1) hardrive????[/tags]

By: karthik

karthik — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:35:57 +0000

i bought national geographic comploete from 1888-1996 but i have lost the cd key is it possible for anyone to mail me the working cd key

By: Murray Todd Williams

Murray Todd Williams — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:30:15 +0000

I bought the DVD set (goes through 1997). If memory serves, it required a 16-bit version of Quicktime (PC) and was completely incompatible with a modern (Windows 2000+).

But this isn’t landfill material. The set (4 DVDs) consists of program files, cross-referencing databases, etc. but in essentially everything is crammed into a single huge directory called “IMAGES”, and each issues has a subfolder (with counterintuitive name, but the last 2 digits of the year is in the name) and each one of those subfolders has a big JPG file that contains an image of a page.

I right now doing a class project on Nicaragua and lifted (without too much effort) articles spanning from 1909 to 1985, all with interesting photos.

So although it’s a bit inconvenient, my DVDs are still useful. In fact, since it is all stored in such a ridiculously primitive manner, I’ve got a lot more control over how I can use these materials. (Ie. I can lift images easily to paste into documents.) The pity is that the pages are complete digital pixel scans so the text isn’t in any ASCII usable format.

By: Andrew Pring

Andrew Pring — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 09:24:23 +0000

Hi
I purchased the 110 years version years ago and was given the runaround trying to get a key to view the photos.
I have never been able to see part of what I paid for.
Do you by any chance have a key that works that you could email to me?

Thanks