In mid-1984, the major PC vendors began to anticipate the immediate need for greater micro-based magnetic storage media. They realized that these memory-intensive windowing system, provide tremendous utility to the user, require so much floppy and RAM memory as to limit the amount and type of applications.

            As Microsoft envisioned a future enable by this windowing system, they foresaw that integrated system software would ultimately encourage users to desire access to exponentially larger amounts of data as commodities. There are reasons why we use CD-ROM.

            First, the pc user might have close-loop access to very large research, encyclopedic or financial database currently available only by access to a mini or mainframe computer.

            Second, the user might have ready access to the much more data-intensive multimedia-type applications that integrate data, graphics, videos and sounds, which they believe to be the future of computer-mediated popular media.

            Now as they had come to realize that neither the hard disc nor floppy disc could provide the greater storage and delivery needs required by these larger requirements, they continued their search for amore efficient an affordable alternative media that could. They looked to Phillip's new optically based data media as the answer.